Abraham, the nations, and the Hagarites Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives on kinship with Abraham / [electronic resource] : edited by Martin Goodman, George H. van Kooten, Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - 1 online resource (xxxv, 577 p.) - Themes in biblical narrative, v. 13 1388-3909 ; . - Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 13. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Old Testament narrative. Abraham and the nations / Ed Noort -- Created in the image of the son : Ishmael and Hagar / Ed Noort -- Early Judaism and its Greco-Roman environment. Spartans and Jews : Abrahamic cousins? / Jan N. Bremmer -- Did the Gentiles know who Abraham was? / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Abraham and the nations in the Dead Sea scrolls : exclusivism and inclusivisim in the texts from Qumran and the absence of a reception history of Gen 12:3 / Mladen Popović -- Abraham and the nations in the Book of Jubilees / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Hagar in the Book of Jubilees / Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Abraham and the nations in the works of Philo of Alexandria / Phoebe Makiello -- Hagar and the enkyklios paideia in Philo of Alexandria / Abraham P. Bos -- Josephus on Abraham and the nations / Martin Goodman -- Hagar, Ishmael, and Abraham's household in Josephus' Antiquitates judaicae / Birgit van der Lans -- Rabbinic Judaism. Converting the missionary image of Abraham : rabbinic traditions migrating from the land of Israel to Babylon / Moshe Lavee -- Abrahm, exile, and midrashic tradition / Joanna Weinberg -- Ishmael sacrificed grasshoppers / Ronit Nikolsky -- Hagar in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan / Florentino García Martínez -- Many nations and one God : Abraham in Hebrew hymns / Wout van Bekkum -- New Testament and early Christianity. "Neither Jew nor Greek" : Abraham as a universal ancestor / Karin B. Neutel -- Belonging to Abraham's kin : genealogical appeals to Abraham as a possible background for Paul's Abrahamic argument / Birgit van der Lans -- Broadening the new perspective on Paul : Paul and the ethnographical debate of his time : the criticism of Jewish and pagan ancestral customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) / George H. van Kooten -- Hagar and Paul's covenant thought / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- Philosophical criticism of genealogical claims and stoic depoliticization of politics : Greco-Roman strategies in Paul's allegorical interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31) / George H. van Kooten -- Children of the slave woman : the gnostic Christian reinterpretation of Paul's allegory of Hagar and Sarah / Bas van Os -- "Come out of your country and your kinsfolk" : Abraham's command and ascent of the soul in the Exegesis on the soul (NHC II,6) / Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta -- Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Saracens / Anthony Hilhorst -- After Philo and Paul : Hagar in the writings of the Church Fathers / Johan Leemans -- The call of God and the response of Abraham : perspectives from a fifth-century Christian debate / Augustine Casiday -- Hagar in the so-called Daniel-Diegesis and in other Byzantine writings / W.J. Aerts -- Islam. The religion of Abrahm and Islam / Gerald Hawting -- Hājar in the Qur'ān and its early commentaries / Fred Leemhuis -- Epilogue / Martin Goodman.

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Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Hagar (Biblical figure)
Ishmael (Biblical figure)


Bible.--O.T.--Genesis II, 16-18, 21--Criticism, Narrative.
Bible.--O.T.--Genesis II, 16-18, 21--Historiography.
Bible.--N.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Koran--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
Abrahamic religions.
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament


Electronic books.

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