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Not too much, really. It’s still “fringe” to say that there even *were* cities that long ago, despite the handful of independently funded diving missions proving that there are human constructions on the edges of the continental shelf (~400 feet underwater and ~200 miles out). The ✡official narrative✡ is that civilization began only when jews say it began and that there totally weren’t any cities before the end of the last ice age. Just hunter-gatherers (cities require agriculture), and therefore only nomadic people.

We’d have to get archaeology to dedicate itself full time to expeditions underwater (and digging deeper than they already do in very politically charged places) to get a better picture of who lived where (if that’s even possible using only the stone that’s left to us) and when places were settled. Gobekli Tepe, for example, is one of the few discovered (admitted) above-water original settlements from that time. There are records there that people believe show the comet that *caused* the Younger Dryas Event.

There’s a lot to still be discovered in this department. [Israel and Egypt work hard to cover it up.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4NnCAZcxHg) They don’t want it know who actually lived there before them.

Because both genealogies were probably made up to fit a narrative.

I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, but I don't believe that the authors were entirely accurate when they wrote things down. They lived in a time when myth and legends were considered scientific fact. If you think that you're smarter than they were, and the way you think about things is better, well, it wasn't so long ago that people thought leeches would cure various diseases because the humors were out of balance. That was modern, cutting edge science, and those people thought everyone that came before them were silly. What are your grandkids going to think of your carefully reasoned out observations and rationalizations? Be very careful when you try to judge others from the past based on the current state of civilization!

Once you realize that the authors were not being very careful with their claims, and never once considered that a highly skeptical generation of people that would demand every carefully written word would match and agree with every other word would ever exist, the Bible makes a whole lot more sense. They just did not think that way, and if we are to think that way we are to read into the text things that just aren't there.

I think one may be for His Mother, and the other might be for St, Joseph, and theeres also the issue where the Ancients went by multiple names and there isnt always consistency with which one they are reffered to.