Jews, Christians and Muslims describe their origins with shut connection with the narrative of Abraham, together with the advanced tale of Abraham's relation to Hagar. This quantity sketches the heritage of interpretation of a few of the main passages during this narrative, now not least the verses which nation that during Abraham the entire international locations of the earth can be blessed. This passage, which good points prominently in Christian historiography, is essentially omitted in historical Judaism, prompting the query how the relation among Abraham and the international locations was once perceived in Jewish resources. This concentration is supplemented with the query how Islamic historiography pertains to the Abraham narrative, and specifically to the descent of the Arabs from Abraham via Ishmael and Hagar. In learning the normal readings of those narratives, the quantity bargains an in depth but wide-ranging research of vital facets of the bills in their origins which emerged in the 3 Abrahamic religions.
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