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    "description": "Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם *Avraham*; originally אַבְרָם *Avram*; Arabic إبراهيم *Ibrāhīm*; Greek Ἀβραάμ *Abraám*) is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the Eden-lineage patriarchal figure who emerges in the post-Sodom-and-Gomorrah period (late Age of Taurus, c. 2,000-1,900 BCE in mainstream chronology) as the tested and verified leader around whom the diminished Eden-lineage population is reorganized following the Council preventive strike against the rebel center in the Cities of the Plain. The principal corpus source articulation appears in Vorilhon's *The Book Which Tells the Truth* (1974), 'The Truth' chapter, 'The Sacrifice of Abraham' section, where Yahweh registers the Akedah (Genesis 22) explicitly as a loyalty test: *'after most of their leading intellectuals had been destroyed, and they had relapsed into a semi-primitive state, the creators wished to see if the people of Israel, and particularly their leader, still had positive feelings towards them.'* The corpus reads the *lekh lekha* call of Genesis 12:1 as a recruitment — the post-Sodom Council operation identifying a reliable lineage in the post-rebellion period — and the subsequent covenant material (Genesis 15, 17) as the political program of the recovery, articulating the geographic terms (Nile-to-Euphrates), the descendant promise, and the *brit milah* (circumcision) physical-marker institution. The Mamre visitation (Genesis 18) presents three men (the Yahweh-figure plus two scout-subordinates) operating as alliance officers; Abraham's Sodom-negotiation (Genesis 18:22-33) registers the Yahweh-figure as *ha-shofet kol ha-aretz* ('the Judge of all the earth'), identifying the visiting officer with planetary-judicial authority. The Akedah (Genesis 22) operates as the Council's formal loyalty test of Abraham conducted after Sodom; the Hebrew verb *nissah* ('tested, examined') frames the episode from the opening verse as test rather than command; the *ki atah yadati* ('for now I know') of Genesis 22:12 confirms empirical-investigation framing rather than omniscient-divine engagement. Abraham passes; the Council records the result; the post-Akedah promise (Genesis 22:16-18) confirms the political program. Abraham operates as founding patriarch for Judaism (through Isaac), Christianity (through Isaac via the Jesus genealogy), Islam (through Ishmael, with Ibrahim as Hanif primordial-monotheist figure), and Baha'i (through Keturah). The corpus position registers Abraham as a herdsman who had once been part of a civilization that built starships — a poignant figure marking the civilizational reduction from Tower-of-Babel interstellar capability to semi-pastoral nomadism following the successive Babel-and-Sodom Council interventions.",
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    "alternative_names": ["Abraham (English)","Abram (pre-renaming name)","אַבְרָהָם (Hebrew Avraham)","אַבְרָם (Hebrew Avram)","إبراهيم (Arabic Ibrāhīm)","Ἀβραάμ (Greek Abraám)","the Patriarch","Avraham Avinu (Jewish 'Abraham our father')","Khalīl Allāh (Arabic 'Friend of God')"],
    "see_also": [{"description":"The post-Flood covenant whose lineage the Abrahamic covenant continues.","path":"wiki/noahic-covenant","title":"Noahic Covenant"},{"description":"The Council preventive strike Abraham negotiates over in Genesis 18.","path":"wiki/sodom-and-gomorrah","title":"Sodom and Gomorrah"},{"description":"The later covenant-mediator in the same Eden-lineage recovery.","path":"wiki/moses","title":"Moses"},{"description":"The primordial hanif monotheism the Islamic tradition traces back to Abraham.","path":"wiki/hanafiyya","title":"Hanafiyya"},{"description":"The Nabataean sanctuary at the center of the Abrahamic-Hijaz question.","path":"wiki/petra","title":"Petra"}],
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    "body_html": "<p><strong>Abraham</strong> (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם, <em>Avraham</em>; Arabic إبراهيم, <em>Ibrāhīm</em>) is the founding\npatriarch of the biblical tradition — the man called out of Mesopotamia to whom\nthe covenant promises of land, descendants, and blessing are made, and the shared\nancestor claimed by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the Wheel of Heaven\nframework Abraham is read as a recruitment-and-recovery figure: a verified-loyal\nhuman lineage-head enlisted, after the <a href=\"../sodom-and-gomorrah/\">Sodom</a>\ndestruction, to reorganise the surviving <a href=\"../eden/\">Eden</a> lineage around a stable\ncovenant — the beginning of the <a href=\"../timeline/age-of-aries/\">Aries-age</a> recovery\nprogram that the corpus tracks forward into the later prophetic traditions.</p>\n<h2 id=\"Etymology_and_naming\">Etymology and naming</h2>\n<p>The patriarch bears two names in Genesis. He is introduced as <strong>Avram</strong>\n(אַבְרָם, \"exalted father\"); at the covenant renewal of Genesis 17:5 the name is\nchanged to <strong>Avraham</strong> (אַבְרָהָם), glossed there as \"father of a multitude of\nnations\" (<em>av-hamon goyim</em>). The etymology is, as often in Genesis, a\ntheological word-play rather than a strict derivation — the added syllable marks\nthe covenant, not a change of language.</p>\n<p>The name travels with the traditions that claim him: Greek Ἀβραάμ (<em>Abraám</em>) in\nthe Septuagint and New Testament, and Arabic إبراهيم (<em>Ibrāhīm</em>), the form under\nwhich he becomes one of the most frequently named figures in the Quran. Later\ntradition adds the honorifics — <em>Avraham Avinu</em> (\"Abraham our father\") in Jewish\nusage, <em>al-Khalīl</em> (\"the friend [of God]\") in Islam — that register the weight\nthe figure carries across the three traditions.</p>\n<h2 id=\"The_Genesis_narrative\">The Genesis narrative</h2>\n<p>The Abraham cycle runs from Genesis 11:26 to 25:11 and is among the most\nsustained biographical treatments in the Hebrew Bible. Its principal episodes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Origins (Genesis 11).</strong> Abram is born in Ur of the Chaldees and migrates with\nhis father Terah to Haran.</li>\n<li><strong>The call — <em>lekh lekha</em> (Genesis 12).</strong> \"Go forth from your land\" — Abram is\ntold to leave for a land he will be shown, with the promise \"I will make of you\na great nation.\" He travels through Canaan into Egypt and back.</li>\n<li><strong>The covenant (Genesis 15 and 17).</strong> In two articulations — the \"covenant\nbetween the pieces\" of Genesis 15 and the circumcision covenant of Genesis 17 —\nthe promises of land and innumerable descendants are formalised and sealed.</li>\n<li><strong>Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 16 and 21).</strong> Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bears\nAbraham a first son, Ishmael; after Isaac's birth Hagar and Ishmael are sent\naway, and a parallel promise is made over Ishmael.</li>\n<li><strong>Mamre and Sodom (Genesis 18–19).</strong> Three visitors are received at Mamre and\nannounce Isaac's coming birth; Abraham then intercedes over the impending\ndestruction of <a href=\"../sodom-and-gomorrah/\">Sodom and Gomorrah</a>.</li>\n<li><strong>The Akedah (Genesis 22).</strong> Abraham is commanded to offer Isaac and is stopped\nat the last moment — the \"binding of Isaac\" (<em>Akedat Yitzchak</em>), the tradition's\nmost theologically loaded passage.</li>\n<li><strong>Final episodes (Genesis 23–25).</strong> Sarah dies and is buried at Machpelah; a\nwife, Rebekah, is secured for Isaac; Abraham dies \"old and full of years.\"</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"The_Wheel_of_Heaven_reading\">The Wheel of Heaven reading</h2>\n<p>The framework reads the Abraham cycle as the record of a deliberate recovery\noperation mounted after a period of collapse, and reads its details\noperationally.</p>\n<p><strong>Abraham as recruitment.</strong> The <em>lekh lekha</em> call is read as a recruitment: after\nthe destruction of the rebel centre at Sodom, a verified-loyal figure was needed\naround whom the surviving Eden lineage could be reorganised. The promise of \"a\ngreat nation\" is read as the charter of that reorganisation rather than as a\nreward for private piety. On this reading Abraham is chosen for reliability, not\nfor uniqueness of faith.</p>\n<p><strong>The covenant as a political program.</strong> The land-and-descendants covenant is\nread as the founding instrument of the <a href=\"../the-alliance/\">Alliance</a> — a durable\narrangement, in the line of the earlier <a href=\"../noahic-covenant/\">Noahic covenant</a>,\nby which a human lineage is cultivated over generations. The circumcision sign of\nGenesis 17 is read as the covenant's marker of membership.</p>\n<p><strong>The Mamre visitation.</strong> The three visitors of Genesis 18, who eat, are addressed\nas men, and announce a birth before turning toward Sodom, are read as\nalliance-officer contact rather than as a theophany — an on-the-ground engagement\nconsistent with the physical, embodied character the corpus attributes to the\n<a href=\"../elohim/\">Elohim</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>The Akedah as loyalty test.</strong> The binding of Isaac is read as exactly what the\ntext calls it — a test (Genesis 22:1, <em>nissah</em>, \"tested\") — administered to\nconfirm the reliability of the recruited lineage-head before the covenant was\nallowed to pass to the next generation. The staying of the knife is read as the\ntest's completion, not as a repudiation of the demand.</p>\n<p><strong>The Ishmael line.</strong> The framework reads the parallel promise over Ishmael\n(Genesis 21:13) as significant rather than incidental: the recovery program runs\nthrough both of Abraham's sons, and the Ishmael branch produces its own recovery\ntradition in the rise of Islam (below). This is an <code>inferred</code> reading, consistent\nwith the sources rather than stated by them.</p>\n<h3 id=\"The_Hanafiyya_—_Islam_as_Abrahamic_restoration\">The Hanafiyya — Islam as Abrahamic restoration</h3>\n<p>The corpus reading of Abraham as a recruitment-and-recovery figure finds an\nunusually explicit confirmation in the origins of Islam. The earliest Islamic\nsources do not present the new religion as an innovation but as the recovery of\n<em>millat Ibrāhīm</em>, the religion of Abraham — the <a href=\"../hanafiyya/\">Hanafiyya</a>\n(Arabic <em>al-Ḥanīfiyyah</em>, \"the upright primordial monotheism\"). The Quran claims\nAbraham as older than the traditions that quarrel over him — <em>\"Abraham was\nneither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was an upright one (ḥanīf)\"</em> (Quran 3:67) —\nand commands the following of his religion directly (Quran 16:123; 2:135). Ibn\nIsḥāq's biography preserves a tradition of four pre-Islamic Qurashī seekers who,\njudging that their people had corrupted the religion of their father Abraham,\n\"went their several ways in the lands, seeking the Hanifiyya, the religion of\nAbraham.\"</p>\n<p>On the framework's reading the <a href=\"../monotheism/\">\"monotheism\"</a> Abraham turns\ntoward is not the abstract single God of later theology — the <a href=\"../elohim/\">Elohim</a>\nare a <a href=\"../plurality-of-gods/\">plurality</a> of embodied creators — but the recovery\nof accurate knowledge of those creators against <a href=\"../idolatry/\">idolatry</a>. The\nRaëlian canon places this exact failure in Abraham's own period: after the Sodom\ndestruction men \"began stupidly to worship pieces of stone and idols, forgetting\nwho had created them\" (<a href=\"../../library/the-book-which-tells-the-truth/\"><em>The Book Which Tells the\nTruth</em></a>). The religion of Abraham\nis the turn back from those dead images to the makers humanity had forgotten; see\n<a href=\"../hanafiyya/\">Hanafiyya</a> and the full Explainer <a href=\"/articles/monotheism-is-the-wrong-question/\"><em>Monotheism Is the Wrong\nQuestion</em></a>.</p>\n<p>This restoration ran specifically through the <strong>Ishmael</strong> line — through Hagar\n(Genesis 16, 21), the Egyptian handmaid whose son the alliance protects and\ninvests in alongside the covenant line. A revisionist hypothesis (associated with\nDan Gibson) locates the Abrahamic altar and holy city at <a href=\"../petra/\">Petra</a>, the\nNabataean capital, rather than the Hijazi Mecca; that geographic claim is treated\nas <code>speculative</code> in the <a href=\"../petra/\">Petra</a> and <a href=\"../nabataeans/\">Nabataeans</a>\nentries, while the theological claim — Islam's self-understanding as the restored\nreligion of Abraham — rests on the Quran and Ibn Isḥāq directly. See the Explainer\n\"<a href=\"/articles/the-first-mosques-faced-petra-not-mecca/\">The First Mosques Faced Petra, Not\nMecca</a>.\"</p>\n<h2 id=\"Comparative_and_scholarly_perspectives\">Comparative and scholarly perspectives</h2>\n<p>Abraham is unusual among biblical figures in being a live foundational claim for\nthree living traditions at once, and the framework's reading sits alongside the\nscholarship rather than in place of it.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The three-faiths founder.</strong> Judaism reads Abraham as the first patriarch and\nthe covenant's origin; Christianity (Romans 4; Galatians 3) reads him as the\nfather of faith prior to the Law; Islam reads him as a <em>ḥanīf</em> and <em>muslim</em>\nbefore either. The framework treats these not as rival claims to be adjudicated\nbut as three branches of one recovery program, and preserves their differences\nrather than flattening them.</li>\n<li><strong>Source criticism and historicity.</strong> Mainstream scholarship reads the Abraham\ncycle through the Documentary Hypothesis (the interwoven J, E, and P sources of\nGunkel, von Rad, Westermann) and debates the patriarch's historicity, with\nminimalist historians treating the narratives as later literary construction.\nThe framework does not require a fixed second-millennium dating and reads the\ncomposite text as a memory transmitted through more than one channel.</li>\n<li><strong>Rabbinic, Christian, and Bahá'í engagement.</strong> The rabbinic tradition (Genesis\nRabbah; the Talmud's Abraham-rejecting-idolatry narratives) develops Abraham as\nthe discoverer of the one God; the Bahá'í tradition reads him within its\nprogressive-revelation frame as one of a succession of Manifestations. These are\nregistered in their own terms.</li>\n<li><strong>Ancient-astronaut readings.</strong> Earlier interventionist writers (Sitchin) and\nthe philological work of Biglino read the patriarchal contacts as involving\nphysical, non-divine agents. The framework shares the premise of embodied\ncontact but grounds its reading in the Raëlian canon rather than in Sitchin's\nSumerian reconstruction.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"See_also\">See also</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"../hanafiyya/\">Hanafiyya</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../elohim/\">Elohim</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../yahweh/\">Yahweh</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../satan/\">Satan</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../plurality-of-gods/\">Plurality of Gods</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../monotheism/\">Monotheism</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../idolatry/\">Idolatry</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../hebrew-bible/\">Hebrew Bible</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../genesis/\">Genesis</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../religion/\">Religion</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../abrahamic-covenant/\">Abrahamic Covenant</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../sodom-and-gomorrah/\">Sodom and Gomorrah</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../noahic-covenant/\">Noahic Covenant</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../muhammad/\">Muhammad</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../petra/\">Petra</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../nabataeans/\">Nabataeans</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../isaac/\">Isaac</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../ishmael/\">Ishmael</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../moses/\">Moses</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../prophet/\">Prophet</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../rael/\">Raël</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../message-from-the-designers/\">Message from the Designers</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../mauro-biglino/\">Mauro Biglino</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"/articles/monotheism-is-the-wrong-question/\">Monotheism Is the Wrong Question</a></li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"References\">References</h2>\n<h3 id=\"Principal_Raëlian_source\">Principal Raëlian source</h3>\n<p>Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). <em>Le Livre qui dit la vérité</em>. 1974. The principal source articulation in \"The Truth\" chapter, \"The Sacrifice of Abraham\" section.</p>\n<p>Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). <em>Les Extra-Terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète</em>. 1975.</p>\n<p>Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). <em>Accueillir les Extra-Terrestres</em>. 1979.</p>\n<p>Vorilhon, Claude (Raël). <em>Message from the Designers</em>. Tagman Press, 2005. The consolidated English-language edition.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Hebrew_Bible_and_New_Testament_primary_text\">Hebrew Bible and New Testament primary text</h3>\n<p>The Hebrew Bible. Genesis 11:26-25:18 (principal narrative); subsequent references in Exodus 3:6-15, Joshua 24:2-3, Isaiah 41:8 and 51:2, Psalms 105:6-9. Various translations and editions.</p>\n<p>The New Testament. Matthew 1:1-2; Luke 3:34; Romans 4; Galatians 3; Hebrews 11:8-19; James 2:21-23. Various translations and editions.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Mainstream_Genesis_scholarship\">Mainstream Genesis scholarship</h3>\n<p>Skinner, John. <em>A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis</em>. T&amp;T Clark, 1910; revised 1930.</p>\n<p>von Rad, Gerhard. <em>Genesis: A Commentary</em>. Westminster, 1972.</p>\n<p>Westermann, Claus. <em>Genesis 12-36: A Commentary</em>. Augsburg, 1985. Originally <em>Genesis 12-36</em> (Neukirchener Verlag, 1981).</p>\n<p>Wenham, Gordon J. <em>Genesis 16-50</em>. Word Biblical Commentary. Word Books, 1994.</p>\n<p>Sarna, Nahum M. <em>Genesis: The JPS Torah Commentary</em>. Jewish Publication Society, 1989.</p>\n<p>Speiser, E. A. <em>Genesis</em>. Anchor Bible. Doubleday, 1964.</p>\n<p>Hamilton, Victor P. <em>The Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-17</em> and <em>The Book of Genesis: Chapters 18-50</em>. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Eerdmans, 1990, 1995.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Archaeological_and_historical-critical_engagement\">Archaeological and historical-critical engagement</h3>\n<p>Albright, William F. <em>From the Stone Age to Christianity</em>. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.</p>\n<p>Bright, John. <em>A History of Israel</em>. Westminster, 1959; revised editions 1972, 1981, 2000.</p>\n<p>Van Seters, John. <em>Abraham in History and Tradition</em>. Yale University Press, 1975.</p>\n<p>Thompson, Thomas L. <em>The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham</em>. de Gruyter, 1974.</p>\n<p>Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. <em>The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts</em>. Free Press, 2001.</p>\n<p>Dever, William G. <em>What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?</em> Eerdmans, 2001.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Jewish_rabbinic_engagement\">Jewish rabbinic engagement</h3>\n<p><em>The Babylonian Talmud</em>. Various editions.</p>\n<p><em>Genesis Rabbah</em>. Various editions. c. 300-500 CE.</p>\n<p><em>Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer</em>. Various editions. c. 700-900 CE.</p>\n<p>Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac). <em>Commentary on the Pentateuch</em>. Various editions.</p>\n<p>Nahmanides (Moses ben Nahman). <em>Commentary on the Torah</em>. Various editions.</p>\n<p>Spiegel, Shalom. <em>The Last Trial: On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice</em>. Pantheon, 1967.</p>\n<p>Levenson, Jon D. <em>The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity</em>. Yale University Press, 1993.</p>\n<p>Levenson, Jon D. <em>Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam</em>. Princeton University Press, 2012.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Christian_theological_engagement\">Christian theological engagement</h3>\n<p>Paul of Tarsus. <em>Epistle to the Romans</em>; <em>Epistle to the Galatians</em>. New Testament primary text.</p>\n<p>Augustine of Hippo. <em>De Civitate Dei</em> (<em>The City of God</em>). c. 413-426 CE. Books XV-XVI.</p>\n<p>Aquinas, Thomas. <em>Summa Theologiae</em>. c. 1265-1274.</p>\n<p>Calvin, John. <em>Commentary on Genesis</em>. 1554.</p>\n<p>Cocceius, Johannes. <em>Summa Doctrinae de Foedere et Testamento Dei</em>. 1648.</p>\n<p>Soulen, R. Kendall. <em>The God of Israel and Christian Theology</em>. Fortress, 1996.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Islamic_engagement\">Islamic engagement</h3>\n<p>The Quran. Sura 2 (al-Baqarah), Sura 3 (Ali Imran), Sura 6 (al-An'am), Sura 11 (Hud), Sura 14 (Ibrahim), Sura 19 (Maryam), Sura 21 (al-Anbiya), Sura 22 (al-Hajj), Sura 26 (al-Shu'ara), Sura 29 (al-Ankabut), Sura 37 (al-Saffat), Sura 51 (al-Dhariyat), Sura 60 (al-Mumtahanah), and related passages. Various translations and editions.</p>\n<p>Firestone, Reuven. <em>Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis</em>. SUNY Press, 1990.</p>\n<p>Bakhos, Carol. <em>The Family of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Interpretations</em>. Harvard University Press, 2014.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Baha&#39;i_engagement\">Baha'i engagement</h3>\n<p>Baha'u'llah. <em>The Kitab-i-Iqan</em> (<em>The Book of Certitude</em>). 1862.</p>\n<p>Effendi, Shoghi. <em>God Passes By</em>. Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1944.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Kabbalistic_engagement\">Kabbalistic engagement</h3>\n<p><em>The Zohar</em>. c. 1280-1290 CE. Various editions.</p>\n<p>Scholem, Gershom. <em>Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism</em>. Schocken, 1941.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Ancient-astronaut_and_alternative-history_engagement\">Ancient-astronaut and alternative-history engagement</h3>\n<p>Sitchin, Zecharia. <em>The Wars of Gods and Men</em>. Avon, 1985.</p>\n<p>Sitchin, Zecharia. <em>The Earth Chronicles Expeditions</em>. Bear &amp; Company, 2004.</p>\n<p>Biglino, Mauro. <em>Various works</em> (Italian-language scholarship).</p>\n<h3 id=\"Cross-cultural_founding-patriarch_comparative_scholarship\">Cross-cultural founding-patriarch comparative scholarship</h3>\n<p>Frazer, James G. <em>Folk-lore in the Old Testament</em>. 3 vols. Macmillan, 1918.</p>\n<p>Levenson, Jon D. <em>Inheriting Abraham</em>. Princeton University Press, 2012. (Treated above; cross-tradition comparative engagement.)</p>\n<p>Goodman, Lenn E. <em>Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values</em>. Oxford University Press, 1998.</p>\n<h3 id=\"Comparative_cross-cultural_test-narrative_scholarship\">Comparative cross-cultural test-narrative scholarship</h3>\n<p>Spiegel, Shalom. <em>The Last Trial</em>. (Treated above; principal Akedah comparative engagement.)</p>\n<p>Kierkegaard, Søren. <em>Fear and Trembling</em>. 1843. (Principal philosophical Akedah engagement.)</p>\n<p>Levenson, Jon D. <em>The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son</em>. (Treated above.)</p>\n<h3 id=\"Web_resources\">Web resources</h3>\n<p>\"Abraham.\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Binding of Isaac.\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_of_Isaac</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Ibrahim (Islam).\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_in_Islam\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_in_Islam</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Abraham in History and Tradition.\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Historicity_of_the_patriarchs\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Bible#Historicity_of_the_patriarchs</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Lekh-Lekha.\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekh-Lekha\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekh-Lekha</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Abrahamic religions.\" <em>Wikipedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions</a>.</p>\n<p>\"Abraham.\" <em>Jewish Encyclopedia</em>. <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/360-abraham\">https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/360-abraham</a>.</p>\n",
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