CHAPTER 10

Here we meet a stylized genealogy. It is in the spirit of earlier pictures here of the development of the works of civilization. We recall too that ancient genealogies were often artificial, to bring out some point, and were not merely family trees. Cf. R. Wilson, Genealogy and History in the Biblical World, Yale, 1977, p. 166.

We note too, as part of this free stylization, that the descendants of Noah are according to their own languages--before Babel.