Cainan
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Cainan or Kenan (Hebrew: קֵינָן, Standard Keinan Tiberian Qênān ; "possession; smith") is
- A name in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah
- A second Cainan, the son of the Arpachshad mentioned in most manuscripts of the Gospel of Luke 3:36. This reference to Cainan is present in the Septuagint and Samaritan versions of the Tanakh, as well as the Book of Jubilees; however, most modern Biblical scholars believe it to be an error, as did the early Christian apologists Irenaeus and Eusebius. According to the Book of Jubilees (l.c.), Cainan, taught the art of writing by his father, found carved on the rocks by former generations an inscription preserving the science of astrology as taught by the rebel angels, the Watchers, who descended from heaven in the days of Jered and led mankind away from God. The "Sefer ha-Yashar" describes Cainan, the possessor of great astrological wisdom, which had been inscribed on tables of stone, as the son of Seth and not of Arpachshad.
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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
