Abraham | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 26/03/2019

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00:02:21 1 Biblical account
00:02:31 1.1 Origins and calling
00:03:51 1.2 Sarai
00:04:48 1.3 Abram and Lot separate
00:05:44 1.4 Chedorlaomer
00:07:59 1.5 Covenant of the pieces
00:08:43 1.6 Hagar
00:10:22 1.7 Sarah
00:11:41 1.8 Three visitors
00:13:00 1.9 Abraham's plea
00:15:21 1.10 Abimelech
00:18:35 1.11 Isaac
00:19:44 1.12 Ishmael
00:21:35 1.13 Binding of Isaac
00:22:52 1.14 Later years
00:24:44 2 Historicity and origins
00:24:55 2.1 Historicity
00:26:31 2.2 Origins of the narrative
00:29:16 3 Religious traditions
00:29:26 3.1 Overview
00:30:24 3.2 Judaism
00:32:18 3.3 Christianity
00:34:45 3.4 Islam
00:36:10 4 In the arts
00:36:19 4.1 Painting and sculpture
00:40:11 4.1.1 Christian iconography
00:41:47 4.2 Literature
00:42:21 4.3 Music
00:43:44 5 See also



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Abraham, originally Abram, is the common patriarch of the three Abrahamic religions.
In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant, the special relationship between the Jewish people and God; in Christianity, he is the prototype of all believers, Jewish or Gentile; and in Islam he is seen as a link in the chain of prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad.The narrative in Genesis revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land originally given to Canaan but which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. Various candidates are put forward who might inherit the land after Abraham; and, while promises are made to Ishmael about founding a great nation, Isaac, Abraham's son by his half-sister Sarah, inherits God's promises to Abraham. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah's grave, thus establishing his right to the land; and, in the second generation, his heir Isaac is married to a woman from his own kin, thus ruling the Canaanites out of any inheritance. Abraham later marries Keturah and has six more sons; but, on his death, when he is buried beside Sarah, it is Isaac who receives "all Abraham's goods", while the other sons receive only "gifts" (Genesis 25:5–8).The Abraham story cannot be definitively related to any specific time, and it is widely agreed that the patriarchal age, along with the exodus and the period of the judges, is a late literary construct that does not relate to any period in actual history. A common hypothesis among scholars is that it was composed in the early Persian period (late 6th century BCE) as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in Judah during the Babylonian captivity and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counter-claim on Moses and the Exodus tradition.