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Bill Cypher on Nostr: Awoke with a thought about original intent and ancestries being in the Bible. ...

Awoke with a thought about original intent and ancestries being in the Bible.

Ancestry is in the Bible because Judaism was exclusive based on kinship. So that makes parentage as key to proper participation as not eating shellfish. It is just another set of rules. Don't lie, be related to one of these people, no cheeseburgers, and so on.

That all checks out, except that my recollection is that the geneological records from the Bible are patrilineal. The rules are very clear that being Jewish is matrilineal.

any thoughts on that one?