Women in the the genealogy of Jesus // O Holy Night!

[scrollgirl]

My family and I (except my sister) had dinner last night with my dad's side, and today we're all going over to my cousin's house on my mom's side. We didn't put up a tree this year, or get one another gifts, though we'll be having a gift exchange with my cousins tonight. (The kind of exchange where you grab a gift from the pile, open it, then you

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[kita0610]

Jewish geneaology is purely matriarchal. According to Jewish law, you are the religion of your mother, you belong to the tribe of your mother, and all bloodlines are traced through the mother. Reason being, you can never be 100% sure who your father is. Which is kind of interesting when it comes to Jesus, hunh? *G*

[scrollgirl]

Yeah, see, I thought that was odd because I knew that you're Jewish depending on your mother, not your father. So I'm not sure why the genealogies we see in the Bible (and in the Pentateuch?) are male-based. We've got family trees for Adam to Noah to Abraham.

[kita0610]

Well, I can't say I'm familiar with the NT OR the King James (or other English-based) translations of the Torah. But I always did think it was weird that Jesus claimed the House of David through his father (correct me if I'm wrong, please) because that isn't how it works. No doubt there's sexism in any version of the Bible, and lots of son of son of, but the tribal affiliations, priestly affiliations, etc., are all matrilineal.

[scrollgirl]

Yeah, I have to assume there's a lot of patriarchy going on there. But maybe you can clear something up for me re the Torah? Does it give a family tree from Abraham to the kings of Israel? And if so, is it matrilineal? Because the version we have in our "Old" Testament seems to be patrilinial.

[masqthephlsphr]

Hope you and your family had a great Christmas!

[scrollgirl]

We did, thanks! Sounds like you guys ate nearly as much as we did!