I made the following comment to Jeremy who made the observation that the list of names in Chronicles is just a long list of names…
We might think of them just as names Jeremy; but to the Jewish people each one of those names represented a story in and of themselves.
I don’t think the genealogies are meant to be rushed through as being boring lists – rather they are meant to be read in a reflective way about the stories of each and in doing so it builds up to a climax of belonging.
Trinitarian Dance 