1
The post-exilic community preserves genealogies, priestly lines, and the memory of Yehudah.
2
The Cave devotes increasing attention to descent because its final Christian recension seeks to carry the Daviydic line forward.
3
Names from earlier scripture are combined with later genealogical traditions.
4
Where the received Syriac genealogies differ from other sources, HaSefarim preserves the Cave's own sequence as a transmission layer rather than silently correcting it.