Tanach Thoughts

 When filling out the Tribe of Yehudah section in my family tree project, one thing in particular caught my eye: the fairly significant number of people of the tribe who were named either after clothes, types of cloths or had names that were connected to the color white: Saraf, descendant of Shelah - possibly a reference to white-hot flames. Salma/Salmon (2) - a type of clothing. Nefeg? son of David - possibly from root pag, faded. Sheshan son of Yish'i - from Shesh, a type of Egyptian white cloth. Chur son of Kalev ben Chetzron - white, royalty. Shoval son of Kalev ben Chur - the piece of cloth that trails at the back of the clothing. Rekem of Chevron - possibly from Rikma, embroidery or lace. Charan? son of Kalev ben Chetzron - probably from the root char which means anger, in particular, raging white-hot. Related as such to Chur. Yair son of Seguv - he will light, from or, light. Ashchur son of Kalev ben Chur - possibly even named after Chur, in any case, clearly from the root o...

 For about 2.5 months now I've been working nearly non-stop on what is probably one of my most ambitious and crazy ideas ever: creating a family tree for all of the people of Israel mentioned in the Tanach, from the twelve sons of Yaakov all the way down to the last generation of people of the 2nd Temple era mentioned in Ezra, Nechemiah and Chronicles. I would say that about 98% of the names mentioned in the Tanach are now in the tree document I've made. The next phase is working out all of the kinks of calculating who lived when, because the Tanach isn't always 100% clear on that (although, as a friend of mine put it: was it written in a chaotic, confusing manner, or do you simply not understand how the order works?) Right now I'm focusing on the 2nd Temple era. It seems that all agree that Yeshua/Yehoshua the Kohen Hagadol was indeed the direct grandson of the former Kohen Hagadol S'raya, son of S'raya's son Yotzadak/Yehotzadak. However, there are disagree...