Originally Posted by
Tehilah Ba'Aretz
Hebrew thinking as opposed to Greek. You are misreading scriptures because of your non-Hebrew mindset. Try to remember that scripture is about the revelation of the Almighty with history being a minor sub-topic. It's not that the history is wrong. It's just not all that important to the real reason the revelation was given. You may have noticed that the word Grandfather is missing as well. Yet, there actually were such men.
You might be interested in the Rabbinic principles for Biblical understanding. Maimonides wrote that the following principles of faith were required for anyone to have a true ability to learn the Bible:
1. The existence of God;
2. His unity;
3. His spirituality;
4. His eternity;
5. God alone the object of worship;
6. Revelation through his prophets;
7. the preeminence of Moses among the Prophets;
8. God's law given on Mount Sinai;
9. the immutability of the Torah as God's Law;
10. God's foreknowledge of men's actions;
11. retribution;
12. the coming of the Messiah;
13. Resurrection.