Laura Carlson Hasler’s essay, “Radiant Genealogies: A Note on Genealogy and History in the Biblical World,” was published in a recent collection of essays honoring biblical scholar Robert R. Wilson, edited by Carolyn Sharp and Alison Gruseke. Carlson Hasler’s contribution puts Wilson’s concept of the “religious function” of ancient ancestor lists into conversation with classicist C.M. Chin’s formulation of “historical radiance” in order to argue for keeping biblical genealogies – and the Bible more generally – weird.
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