ABRAHAM, OUR FATHER.(Brief Article)

Catholic Insight | October 1, 2000| | Copyright

Abraham is the patriarch of Judaism. But he is also a patriarch of Christianity; so his name, which means "father of many", is fitting. Abraham is the earliest (around 1700 BC) biblical character for whom we have a fragmentary or episodic biography.

Abraham may have been a merchant or a farmer; he lived a nomadic life, moving from Ur to Canaan to Egypt in a pattern that tracks the migrations of the Jewish people.

The Book of Genesis tells us many stories of Abraham. For example, it is Abraham (in chapter 18) who bargains with God to save the cities of Sodom ...

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