Week 52 Genesis
I finished reading Revelation on Monday the day after Christmas. That left me with five days before I start all-over again in Genesis.
Since I had a bit of spare time I was thinking about all the names in Genesis.
If someone asked me: ‘how many names do you think are in Genesis’ I’d say: ‘about 1000’.
But that’s a guess so I decided to test my guess experimentally.
On Tuesday & Wednesday I scan-read the book of Genesis and counted names. I was looking for names only and I tried to not let the stories slow me down. I counted names chapter-by-chapter and recorded them on a sheet of green construction paper. I tried to count names only once (I might have registered a couple of unknown names twice). I was surprised to see that about a dozen chapters had no new names (no names not already mentioned before).
In the end I counted 377 names (so my estimate of 1000 was crazily inflated and might be an example of the feeling I have that things that I don’t like are bigger in my head than they are in testable actuality).
I wondered if I could create a list of Most Important to Least Important People in Genesis that included all 377 people (but I didn’t seriously wonder about it for long). I wondered if I could pick the Top 25 Most Important People in Genesis.
Hmmm. I think that’s do-able. I might try it tomorrow.