25), and by the meaning of his name also (Ram = the high one),
is, like Abram, qualified to stand at the head of the princely
line.
While in chap ii. we thus in point of fact fall in with an old
kernel, and one that necessarily goes back to sound tradition
(apparently preserved indeed, however, merely for the sake of
the later additions), the quite independent and parallel list,
on the other hand, contained in iv. 1-23 is shown by many
unmistakable indications to be a later composition having its
reference only to post-exilian conditions, perhaps incorporating
a few older elements, which, however, it is impossible with any
certainty to detect. /2/
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I Pharez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, Shobal (iv. 1), is a genealogically
descending series; Chelubai must therefore of necessity be read
instead of Carmi, all the more because Chelub and not Carmi appears
in the third place in the subsequent expansion; for this, ascending
from below, begins with Shobal (ver. 2), then goes on to Hur
(vers. 5-10), who stands in the same relation to Ash-hur as Tob
to Ish-tob, and finally deals with Chelub or Caleb (vers.
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