Abram to Abraham
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Abram to Abraham

A Literary Analysis of the Abraham Narrative

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  1. 570 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Abram to Abraham

A Literary Analysis of the Abraham Narrative

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About this book

Abram to Abraham explores the Abraham saga (11: 27-22: 24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the arduous odyssey to nationhood. Rather than overlook the textual discrepancies, repetitions and contradictions long noted by diachronic scholars, this study tackles them directly, demonstrating how many problems of the ancient text in fact hold the key to deeper understanding of the narrative and its objectives. Therefore, the book frequently notes the classic division of the text according to primary sources, but offers an alternative, more harmonious reading based on the assumption that the narrative forms a single, intentionally designed unit.
The narrative's artistic design is especially evident in its arrangement of the two halves of the story around the protagonists' change of name. The stories of Abram and Sarai in the first half of the cycle (11: 27-16: 16) are parallel to the stories of Abraham and Sarah in the second half (18: 1-22: 24). A close reading of this transformation in the biblical narrative illuminates the moral and theological values championed by the figure of Abraham as luminary, soldier, family man, and loyal subject of God.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Line of Terah (11:27–30)
  6. Chapter 2: Abram’s Journey to Canaan (12:1–9)
  7. Chapter 3: The Descent to Egypt (12:10–20)
  8. Chapter 4: The Separation from Lot (Gen 13)
  9. Chapter 5: War of the Four Kings – Lot’s Liberation (14)
  10. Chapter 6: Looking to the Stars and the Covenant between the Pieces (15)
  11. Chapter 7: Hagar’s Flight (16)
  12. Chapter 8: The Covenant of Circumcision (17)
  13. Chapter 9: Angels Eat and Sarah Laughs (18:1–16)
  14. Chapter 10: The Debate over Sodom’s Destruction (18:16–33)
  15. Chapter 11: Sodom’s Destruction and Lot’s Rescue (19)
  16. Chapter 12: Lot and his Daughters in the Cave (19:30–38)
  17. Chapter 13: Abraham and Sarah in Gerar (20)
  18. Chapter 14: The Birth of Isaac and Ishmael’s Expulsion (21:1–21)
  19. Chapter 15: The Treaty of Abraham and Abimelech (21:22–34)
  20. Chapter 16: The Binding of Isaac (22)
  21. Chapter 17: The Sons of Nahor (22:20–24)
  22. Conclusion
  23. Bibliography