Inheriting Abraham : the legacy of the patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam /

Levenson, Jon Douglas.

Inheriting Abraham : the legacy of the patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / Jon D. Levenson. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012. - xvi, 244 p. ; 24 cm. - Library of Jewish ideas .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: who was (and is) Abraham? -- Call and commission -- Frustrations and fulfillments -- The test -- The rediscovery of God -- Torah or gospel? -- One Abraham or three?

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Abraham (Biblical patriarch)
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) --In rabbinical literature.
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) --In the Koran.


Bible.--Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in the New Testament.

BS 580.A3 / L483 2012