Prodromarith period
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- prodromos: (Greek) forerunner
- prodromatic: relating to the symptoms that come before a disease
- arithmos: (Greek) number → prodromarith = those that were before numbers; essentially, this passage at the beginning of the chapter seems to be a sort of genealogy, going back to a time before there were numbers
- Arithmoi: (Greek) Numbers, the fourth book of the Old Testament → HCE's genealogy is traced to a time before the biblical Book of Numbers. This possibly refers to Genesis, but also includes Exodus and Leviticus. Also, the Book of Numbers in the Bible is a book of names, more or less - a census
