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Supplementing Genesis With a Living Book

If you haven’t already heard of Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times
by Ruth Beechick, you’ve got to read it!  As a read-out-loud book, it has my 7 and 11 year olds (and me!) asking for more each time we pick it up.

Recommended by many homeschool curriculums as a companion to biblical history studies, this awesome, easy-to-read, living book vividly recreates the events of the bible from creation to Abram.

While not intending to resolve all historical gaps in history, the author has taken her timeline from the Book of Genesis and added her interpretation of complex biblical research as well as research from other disciplines such as archeology, astronomy, linguistics, other historical books and interviews from field experts to engage and gently introduces her reader to biblical history.

For example, did you know Cain’s family tree and his descendants passed on music, metallurgy and the invention of the tent?

Details that could otherwise confuse a student who is trying to understand biblical history are revealed. For example, did you know that there were two descendants named Enoch. One being Cain’s son who’s descendants continued in all forms of “wickedness” while the other came from the line of Seth (from Jesus’ lineage) who was a prophet of God and believed to been taken into heaven?

In addition, throughout the book, events are connected for the reader. The story of Noah, for example, is linked with the rebellion that led to the construction and eventual destruction of the Tower of Babel and why Methuselah’s age (969 years) may have been extended beyond what was even the normal for his time.

Overall, Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times is an inexpensive, engaging, easy to read book that can be used to supplement your biblical knowledge while leaving you, as it has us, with a wonderfully rich sense of how those historical events could have happened and how they impact today’s society.