information about the topic, see Abraham: Historicity and origins and The Bible and history. Abraham in History and Tradition is a 1975 book by biblical scholar...
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the Historical Abraham. Gruyter, Walter de, & Company. ISBN 9783110040968. Seters, John Van (1975). Abraham in History and Tradition. Yale University...
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Amraphel (category Monarchs in the Torah)
was also used by Sumerian King, Amar-Sin, and "a-p-l". John Van Seters, in Abraham in History and Tradition, rejected the historical existence of Amraphel...
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Abrahamic religions (redirect from Christo-Islamic-Judeo tradition)
position of Jesus). Jewish tradition claims that the Twelve Tribes of Israel are descended from Abraham through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob, whose sons...
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and Deuteronomy – came to be written), and appeared at the same time as two other important books, John Van Seters's Abraham in History and Tradition...
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Patriarchal age (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Abraham. Text. Gruyter, Walter de, & Company. ISBN 978-3-11-004096-8. Seters, John Van (1975). Abraham in History and Tradition. Echo Point Books and...
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Historicity of the Bible (redirect from The Bible and history/New version)
Quest for the Historical Abraham. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110040968. Seters, John Van (1975). Abraham in History and Tradition. Yale University Press...
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Tower of Babel (redirect from Tower of Babel in Islamic tradition)
(1975). Abraham in History and Tradition. Echo Point Books & Media. p. 313. ISBN 978-1-62654-006-4. Levenson 2004, p. 11 "How much history lies behind the...
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Sarah (redirect from Hagar and Ishmael)
Narratives (1974), and John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975). Thompson, a literary scholar, based his argument on archaeology and ancient texts...
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Patriarchs (Bible) (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Abraham. Text. Gruyter, Walter de, & Company. ISBN 978-3-11-004096-8. Seters, John Van (1975). Abraham in History and Tradition. Echo Point Books and...
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John Van Seters's Abraham in History and Tradition (1975), this book marked the culmination of a growing current of dissatisfaction in scholarly circles...
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Documentary hypothesis (redirect from J, E, P and D)
hypothesis: Abraham in History and Tradition by John Van Seters, Der sogenannte Jahwist ("The So-Called Yahwist") by Hans Heinrich Schmid, and Das...
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John Van Seters (category Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
Investigation (1966); Abraham in History and Tradition (1975); In Search of History (1983, for which he won the James H. Breasted Prize and the American Academy...
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Battle of Siddim (category Abraham)
was also used by Sumerian King, Amar-Sin, and "a-p-l". John Van Seters, in Abraham in History and Tradition, rejected the historical existence of Amraphel...
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hypothesis: Abraham in History and Tradition by John Van Seters, Der sogenannte Jahwist ("The So-Called Yahwist") by Hans Heinrich Schmid, and Das...
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the history which begins in Joshua), and Van Seters (Abraham in History and Tradition, proposing a 6th-century BCE date for the story of Abraham, and therefore...
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Isaac (category Children of Abraham)
along with the graves of Abraham and Sarah and Jacob and Leah, are in the Cave of the Patriarchs. In rabbinical tradition, the age of Isaac at the time...
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Biblical minimalism (section Reception and influence)
Thompson's The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives and John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition, it became widely accepted that the remaining chapters...
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Abraham was a prophet and messenger of God according to Islam, and an ancestor to the Ishmaelite Arabs and Israelites. Abraham plays a prominent role as...
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Abraham ben Abraham (Hebrew: אברהם בן אברהם, lit. "Avraham the son of Avraham") (c. 1700 – 23 May 1749), also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn)...
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Ishmael (redirect from Ishmael in the Quran)
time, according to a tradition of Muhammad, Abraham had arrived when his son was out and Abraham visited with Ishmael's wife. Abraham decided to leave before...
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Islamic tradition says Abraham was ordered by God to take Hagar and Ishmael to Mecca, and later Abraham returned to Mecca to build the Kaaba. In many of...
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dissertation was published in 1974 by De Gruyter Press. The work, together with John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition, became one of the pioneer...
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time as two other important works, John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975), and Rolf Rendtorff's "Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem...
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Form criticism (category Oral history)
trace the development of the early gospel tradition. Following the publication of Abraham in History and Tradition by John van Seters, Der sogenannte Jahwist...
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Biblical criticism (section History)
Rose, in 1981, proposed that Jahwist was a prologue to the history which begins in Joshua, and Van Seters, in Abraham in History and Tradition, proposed...
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historical, it has not shown any of the traditions to be likely." and in 1975 John Van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition reached a similar conclusion about...
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In Islamic tradition, the story of Cain and Abel portrays Cain as the first murderer driven by jealousy and lust, guided by the devil, and punished with...
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Shuaib (redirect from Jethro in Islam)
father-in-law. Shuaib is mentioned in the Quran 11 times. He is believed to have lived after Ibrahim (Abraham), and Muslims believe that he was sent as...
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Nimrod (category Islam and Judaism)
"a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth". Biblical and non-biblical traditions identify Nimrod as the ruler who had...
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