TY - BOOK ID - 7217107 TI - The Family of Abraham PY - 2014 SN - 9780674050839 0674050835 0674419944 0674419952 9780674419940 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - Abrahamic religions KW - Religions KW - Relations KW - Abraham KW - Abrahamic religions. KW - 296*83 KW - 297.116*2 KW - Interreligious relations KW - Relations among religions KW - Relations. KW - Relatie jodendom: islam KW - Relatie Islam tot Jodendom KW - Abraham, KW - Abram KW - Abramo KW - Abū al-Anbiyāʼ Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl KW - Abŭraham KW - Avraam KW - Avraham KW - Avram KW - Halil-ül-Rahman İbrahim KW - Ibrāhīm al-Khalīl KW - Ibrahim KW - İbrahim, KW - Khalīl Allāh KW - Nabi Ibrahim KW - אברהם KW - אברהם אבינו KW - إبراهيم الخليل KW - 297.116*2 Relatie Islam tot Jodendom KW - 296*83 Relatie jodendom: islam KW - Religions - Relations KW - Abraham - (Biblical patriarch) KW - In rabbinical literature. KW - In the Qurʼan. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7217107 AB - The term "Abrahamic religions" has gained considerable currency in both scholarly and ecumenical circles as a way of referring to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In The Family of Abraham, Carol Bakhos steps back from this convention to ask a frequently overlooked question: What, in fact, is Abrahamic about these three faiths? Exploring diverse stories and interpretations relating to the portrayal of Abraham, she reveals how he is venerated in these different scriptural traditions and how scriptural narratives have been pressed into service for nonreligious purposes. Grounding her study in a close examination of ancient Jewish textual practices, primarily midrash, as well as medieval Muslim Stories of the Prophets and the writings of the early Church Fathers, Bakhos demonstrates that ancient and early-medieval readers often embellished the image of Abraham and his family--Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac. Her analysis dismantles pernicious misrepresentations of Abraham's firstborn son, Ishmael, and provocatively challenges contemporary references to Judaism and Islam as sibling religions. As Bakhos points out, an uncritical adoption of the term "Abrahamic religions" not only blinds us to the diverse interpretations and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam but also artificially separates these faiths from their historical contexts. In correcting mistaken assumptions about the narrative and theological significance of Abraham, The Family of Abraham sheds new light on key figures of three world religions. ER -