biography
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Abraham, Abram, or Ibrahiz
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| lived:
| (after 2000 BC)
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| biography:
| Revered in the Hebrew Bible as the father of the Hebrew people and of several other nations. According to Genesis he came from the Sumerian town of Ur (‘Ur of the Chaldees’) in modern Iraq, and migrated with his family and flocks to the ‘Promised Land’ of Canaan, where he settled at Shechem (modern Nablus). He lived to be 175 years old, and was buried with his first wife Sarah in Hebron. By Sarah he was the father of Isaac (whom he was prepared to sacrifice at Moriah at the command of the Lord, as a test of his faith); by Sarah's Egyptian maid, Hagar, he was the father of Ishmael, the ancestor of twelve clans; by his third wife Keturah he had six sons who became the ancestors of the Arab tribes. He is traditionally regarded as the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (Gen 22). |
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