On the Authenticity of Kainan (Luke

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Presented by Henry B. Smith Jr. of Associates for Biblical Research at the annual Near East Archaeological Society meeting, November 2018.
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For centuries, scholars have grappled with the inclusion or exclusion of Kainan in Luke 3:36, Genesis 11:13b-14b, Genesis 10:22, 24 and I Chronicles 1:18, 24. Kainan’s authenticity directly impacts our understanding of the genealogy of Genesis 11:10-32, and its relationship to post-Flood archaeological dating. Several lines of evidence support the inclusion of Kainan in the original Septuagint translation of Genesis, Luke 3:36, and even the original Hebrew text of Genesis.
Papyrus 75 (175-225 AD), usually cited as evidence against Kainan’s inclusion in Luke, could have included him, or is, at best, inconclusive due to its highly fragmentary nature. An alternative but equally plausible textual reconstruction of Luke 3:36, including Kainan in P75, will be presented. A “new” discovery, presented here for perhaps the first time in discussions about Kainan, demonstrates that Kainan was included in the earliest legible Greek manuscript of Luke 3:36.
For more on Kainan, see:
Smith Jr., Henry B., "New Evidence for Kainan in New Testament and LXX Papyri," Bible and Spade 31, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 70-77. Online at:
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Smith Jr., Henry B. and Kris J. Udd., "On the Authenticity of Kainan, Son of Arpachshad." Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 24 (2019): 119-154. Online at:
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