Since Dean offered his thoughts I see no reason at the moment to not have a group-discussion sort of thing via email on this question from the other night if that's of interest.
The thing I pick up on from the question below is 'which one was first?'. I think the point is not so much which was the original as including genealogies was not uncommon. Creation myths are about tracing back a people's or person's origins, to "the beginning". The Gospel of John takes this theme and extends Christ's genealogy all the way back into the Cosmos itself, before creation, before all history.
I wouldn't say any of these inclusions are copycats in the sense of directly duplicated where you can point to the original and say, "this came first and takes the preeminent position, all the rest are copies." Rather many use common themes like genealogies in the origin stories, but each use of them will
be unique to each religion/culture. So it is expected that the Christian genealogy will be unique. Each has something unique to the others. If they weren't unique to each group, then they wouldn't serve much purpose to uniquely identify themselves; to distinguish themselves.
To me, rather than an emphasis on which one was first (which is likely impossible to ever be able to really tell), I see it more a question of looking at both the general and unique ways in which these genres were used. These seem more telling questions as to the conditions and mindsets revealing the ways in which they used them to view themselves; their image of themselves, what they were facing, what they wanted to be, and how they created themselves through their stories and traditions.
My two cents...
Keith
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Subject: Re: [SBS] Nate Ramsayer's "The New Testament" Wed Night U Lectures
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun[masked]:04:49 -0400
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Frank,
I don't know if this goes out to all SBS but I have a follow up to my question to Nate last meeting. I asked if other creation stories had a genealogy which are similar to the Bible. Nate was quick to answer yes, to establish their right to the crown they did trace their roots. My question really was, is there another genealogy of the scope of the Bible, which goes from the time of Christ through David, Abraham and on to Adam. In my limited research I have been unable to find something similar. My interest is driven by the discussion of which story was the original. If the Bible copied another account I would believe that there would be a genealogy there as well.
Frank, can you pass this along for me as I find this discussion fascinating.
Dale
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Subject: [SBS] Nate Ramsayer's "The New Testament" Wed Night U Lectures
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Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 7:13 PM
Although not part of our formal biweekly Tuesday night SBS Meetups, SBS wanted to tell you about a parallel lecture series we recommend! Nate Ramsayer, prior to his departure for grad school in Boston, will be teaching five free lectures on The New Testament through the Experimental College of the Twin Cities (www.excotc.org). Nate's course will be FREE. It will begin Wednesday, June 23rd and go through Wednesday, July 21st (5 Wednesday nights), from 6:30-8:30 pm. It will be held on the University of Minnesota campus (East Bank) in Ford Hall, room 150 (the building on the Mall, at its SE corner on the north side of Washington Ave. SE.) Pay-parking is available (at an hourly pay rate) in the Washington Ave Parking Ramp,
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