Longevity is a weighty matter in “Genesis” and beyond.

The geneologies listed in “Genesis” are usuallytreated as filler so as to show the passage of time, allowing the reader to get to the next juicy story. iut the geneologies have literary weight in themselves even though most of the names listed in the “Genesis” genealogies do not have stories associated with them. These people are described only by their lineage and their longevity. The genealogies would seem to say that in those distant times men were indeed titans. How are they titans? “Genesis” says it is not a matter of size or of wisdom or of language or of power but a matter of age. Descent simply ties together people noteworthy for how long they lived.