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Joktan (Kenan)(Cainan) the Semite |
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- Another name for CAINAN was Kenan.
Some genealogist put him in as the son of Arphaxad and father of Shelah, but Genesis 10:24 stats that Arphaxad begat Salah and he begat Eber. So I think they are mistaking him for Peleg's brother Jaktan. So I am putting him in as such, there are a lot of different spellings here and so things are hard to follow.
We are dealing with transliterations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arab here.
«b»http://www.christiananswers.net/bible/luke3.html#23«/b»
Luke 3:36
«b»Cainan
«/b»Meaning: possession; smith
The name of two biblical men…
The fourth «u»antediluvian «/u» «u»patriarch «/u», the eldest son of «u»Enos «/u». He was 70 years old at the birth of his eldest son «u»Mahalaleel «/u», after which he lived 840 years («u»Gen. 5:9-14 «/u»), and was 910 years old when he died. He is also called Kenan (1 Chr. 1:2).
The son of «u»Arphaxad «/u» (Luke 3:36). He is nowhere named in the Old Testament. He is usually called the "second Cainan."
«b»http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/cainan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cainan
\tab«/b»Cainan, the son of the «u»Arpachshad «/u» mentioned in most manuscripts of the «u»Gospel of Luke «/u» 3:36. This reference to Cainan is present in the «u»Septuagint «/u» and «u»Samaritan «/u» versions of the \ul«i»Book of Genesis \ulnone«/i», as well as in the \ul«i»Book of Jubilees \ulnone«/i»; however, most modern Biblical scholars believe it to be an error, as did the early Christian apologists «u»Irenaeus «/u» and «u»Eusebius «/u».
According to the «i»Book of Jubilees«/i», Cainan, taught the art of writing by his father, found carved on the rocks by former generations an inscription preserving the science of «u»astrology «/u» as taught by the rebel angels, the «u»Watchers «/u», who descended from heaven in the days of «u»Jared «/u» and led mankind away from God.
The \ul«i»Sefer ha-Yashar \ulnone«/i» describes Cainan, the possessor of great astrological wisdom, which had been inscribed on tables of stone, as the son of «u»Seth «/u» and not of Arpachshad; ie, the antediluvian Kenan.
In «i»The Patriarchal Age: or, the History and Religion of Mankind«/i» (1854), George Smith writes:
"«i»It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the omission of the name of Cainan from the Hebrew text, and the consequent general rejection of him by historians, there are more traditions preserved of him than of his son Salah. 'The Alexandrine Chronicle derives the «u»Samaritans «/u» from Cainan*; «u»Eustachius «/u» Antiochenus, the Saggodians; «u»George Syncellus «/u», the Gaspheni; «u»Epiphanius «/u» the Cajani. Besides the particulars already mentioned, it is said Cainan was the first after the flood who invented «u»astronomy «/u», and that his sons made a god of him, and worshiped his image after his death. The founding of the city of «u»Harran «/u» in Mesopotamia is also attributed to him; which, it is pretended, is so called from a son he had of that name.' -«/i»Anc. Univ. Hist.«i», vol. i, p. 96,«/i» note."
(* What the Latin «i»Alexandrine Chronicle«/i» actually says is that "those who live east of the «u»Sarmatians «/u»" were derived from Cainan)
- (Research):http://fabpedigree.com/s024/f550830.htm
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