• 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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    Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    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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    Israelites in Canaan; Islamic tradition claims that twelve Arab tribes known as the Ishmaelites are descended from Abraham through his son Ishmael in the Arabian...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • a family member of the family of Hashim and the Quraysh tribe which is ‘Adnani. According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad descends from the Islamic prophet...
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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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    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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  • Patriarch Abraham. According to Jewish tradition, Terah was an idolater. Terah also made and sold idols, as the Midrash Genesis Rabbah 38 explains. Abraham is...
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