The First Family: Terah and Sons
This article argues that, though Abraham is the principal subject of the first unit in the Terah genealogy, the genealogical structure of Genesis obliges one to take account of the family to which he belonged, its antecedents and its descendants, and therefore not only to look forward to the ethnoge...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2016, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-13 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Israelites
/ Ancestors
/ Terah
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Abraham
B Progeny B Genealogy B Genesis B Pentateuch |
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| Summary: | This article argues that, though Abraham is the principal subject of the first unit in the Terah genealogy, the genealogical structure of Genesis obliges one to take account of the family to which he belonged, its antecedents and its descendants, and therefore not only to look forward to the ethnogenesis of a single people, but backwards into the post-disaster world, the world we still inhabit. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089216646522 |