
A New Language
This morning I was reading Genesis and was going through the genealogy of Noah. I must confess, I am the type of person who often skims the genealogies. I get bogged down and bored by the names I have a hard time pronouncing and most of the time don’t know enough about the lineage to make a connection between who begat whom.
But today, as I was reading about Noah’s boys and their descendants, I was saddened because I saw the names of tribes and peoples in a familial context