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were two bawdred and five years: and Terah died in
Maran.”
The Migration From Ur to Haran
(1) Having traced the descendants of Eber down to
Nahor, now the Messianic genealogy is narrowed down
specifically from the generic to the ethic (“chosen”)
seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15), namely the posterity of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exo. 3:6, 15:16; Matt. 22:32,
Mark 12:26, Luke 20:37; Acts 3:13, 7.32). (Note Terah’s
name in the Lineage as given by Luke (3:34). Note also
that Matthew introduces the Line with Abraham, obviously
because Matthew’s primary objective was to present Jesus
as Messiah identified by Old Testament prophecy, hence
his oft-recurring clause, “that it might be fulfilled,” as
first used in Matt. 1 :22-23). (2) It should be noted, too,
that the Line is given in more detail at this point with
the view to introducing the two parents, Abram and Sarai
whose names are changed later to Abraham and Sarah
(17: FY 1 S-from 3 Abram, “exalted father,” to Abraham,
“father of a multitude”; from Sarai, ‘hy princess,” to
Sarah, “princess” : according to Gesenius, whereas f ormerly
she was Abram’s princess only, she was now to become
princess in a more‘exalted sense, princess of a people: the
name indicates she was a woman of some social standing).
EG, Vol. I, 399: cc-cSarai,’ according to its root, cannot be
the same as Sbarra and so related to Skarratu, the goddess
of Charran, the wife’of the moon-god Sin. Such efforts
to make historical personages identical with mythological
figures degrade ’ Biblical’ history.” (3) This section also
introduces” ,Nahor ‘ (cf. 1 Chron. 1 :2 6) Rebekah’s grand-
24) and Lot,. the ancestor of the Moabites and
the’ ’Amrnonkes (19:.30131) (4) Note also Abraham’s
explanation”(Gen:: 201 I Z ~ that Sarah was his half-sister
(his father’s’^ daughter, ‘ but not the daughter of his
. “
motAer). Despite some fantastic conjectures as to the
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