Interesting Facts

• Gera is listed as one of the four sons of Tiras in one instance within the Book of Jasher, alongside Benib, Lupirion, and Gilak.
• According to another listing in the Book of Jasher, the children of Tiras are Rushash, Cushni, and Ongolis, seemingly omitting Gera. This discrepancy presents a point of interest regarding the composition of Tiras’s lineage within the source.
• The text notes that the sons of Japheth, including Tiras and by extension his sons, numbered about four hundred and sixty men in those days.

Genealogy

• Gera is the son of Tiras.
• Tiras is one of the seven sons of Japheth, who is one of the three sons of Noah.
• The sources do not provide information regarding Gera’s birth, marriage, or offspring.

Historical Context

The sources place Gera within the generation that followed the scattering of humanity after the Tower of Babel. Following this event, the sons of Noah and their descendants dispersed and built cities according to their families and languages. The sons of Japheth, including Tiras and his sons, went towards the sea and dwelt in their allotted portion of the earth. This era was marked by the division of the earth amongst Noah’s sons and subsequently amongst their own children. It was a time of establishing new settlements and the beginnings of distinct nations, each with its own language and customs. The Book of Jasher indicates that the families of Japheth spread and rested in the north and built themselves cities, naming them after themselves.

Narrative

The personal narrative of Gera is not explicitly detailed within the provided sources. He is primarily mentioned within lists enumerating the descendants of Japheth through his father, Tiras. The Book of Jasher includes him in one list of Tiras’s sons, suggesting his existence within that genealogical framework. However, his absence from another listing of Tiras’s children in the same source raises questions, though no further narrative context is given to explain this discrepancy. Therefore, Gera remains a figure primarily defined by his lineage, situated within the broader narrative of the post-Babel dispersal and the establishment of new familial and possibly tribal entities among the descendants of Japheth. His actions, dialogues, and individual implications within the larger story are not elaborated upon in these texts.