{"title":"Children Of The Slavewoman","authors":"B. Os","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.127","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces first the origins and early history of the tradition, and subsequently offer some remarks on its survival after the rise of Islam. It describes the names \"Ishmaelites\" and \"Hagarenes\" and then with the name \"Saracens\". There seems to have been an awareness of a genealogical connection between Hagar and her son Ishmael on the one hand and the Hagarenes and Ishmaelites on the other. In early Christianity, which drew on the biblical and cognate literature it inherited from Judaism, we may take the knowledge of the offspring of Ishmael/Hagar for granted. Christian opponents would retort that with such a promise God had also blessed the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; and that the multitude of twelve peoples was of no avail if God's goodwill was not there; besides, Abraham had had to implore God in order to obtain this promise for Ishmael. Keywords:Christianity; God; Hagar; Hagarenes; Ishmaelites; Islam; Judaism; Saracens","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115047689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belonging To Abraham’s Kin","authors":"B. Lans","doi":"10.1163/ej.9789004188433.i-578.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004188433.i-578.102","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the author investigates about the place of the allegory in Paul's argument and covenant thought will take into account more recent studies on rhetorical-critical analysis, new data and renewed discussion about Second Temple Jewish covenant thought and discussion about the question whether or not we can speak of covenant theology in Paul's letters. These subjects, rhetorical-critical analysis of Paul's allegory in Galatians, the historical context of covenant thought, and the question of covenant thought or theology in Paul's letters in general, will subsequently receive attention in the order of his discussion. Before the author turns to the implications of Paul's argumentation and allegorization for our understanding of his covenant thought, he presents a few thoughts about contemporary Jewish contexts of covenant thought. Keywords:Galatians; Hagar; Jewish contexts; Paul's allegory; rhetorical-critical analysis","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116147433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Josephus On Abraham And The Nations","authors":"M. Goodman","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.59","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter compares the traditions from the two divergent rabbinic milieus of Late Antiquity-Babylon and the land of Israel (Palestine), and shows a change in the image of Abraham as a proselytizer. The past decades have seen an important development in the study of rabbinic literature, leading to a growing recognition of the contribution of late redactors and transmitters to the shaping of rabbinic traditions. Accordingly, the chapter examines the rabbinic narratives concerning Abraham's mission to the nations, recognizing that rabbinic literature is a literary corpus that evolved through centuries of creative redaction and the flexible transmission of orally cited materials. The traditions surveyed are only part of the corpus of texts with a theme of Abraham and Sarah as proselytizers, not to mention that they are not the only biblical figures presented in rabbinic literature as undertaking that or another kind of missionary activity. Keywords:Abraham; late antiquity Babylon; missionary activity; rabbinic literature; Sarah","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"31 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116818044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hajar In The Qu’Ran And Its Early Commentaries","authors":"F. Leemhuis","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.161","url":null,"abstract":"Although by far not as well known as her son Ismā‘īl, Hājar or Ᾱjar as she also sometimes is called is certainly not unfamiliar to most Muslims. One has to look up the lemma Abraham in the Encyclopaedia of the Qur᾽ān to find out what part Hagar plays in the narrative cycle of Ibrāhīm which is largely in accordance with Jewish tradition as Paret already remarked in lemma Ismā‘īl in the Encyclopaedia of Islam . In the earliest period of Islam one does not have much reference to Hājar. As far as the written sources are concerned, it would appear that only sometime in the first half of the second century of Islam is Hājar mentioned at all and that not before the end of the second century of Islam, i.e., the beginning of the ninth century ce, was the story of her and her sons flight to Mecca written down. Keywords: Encyclopaedia of the Qur᾽ān ; Hājar","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128472184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Neither Jew Nor Greek”","authors":"K. Neutel","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.95","url":null,"abstract":"Within the New Perspective on Paul, the universal nature of his view on emerging Christianity and his criticism of the ethnocentric identity markers of Judaism such as circumcision and food regulations, have been much emphasized. This chapter concentrates on the passage from 1 Thess 2 which helps us to appreciate the full scope of Paul's universalism, which took shape not only in response to Jewish ethnocentrism, but also in reply to the Greco-Roman protection of pagan ethnic, ancestral customs. It examines the text from First Thessalonians and explores the pagan views on Jewish ethnocentric misanthropy and the fuller ethnographical discourse in which it is subsumed. Finally, the author explores the double-sidedness of Paul's critique, which not only applies to Judaism but also to paganism, and points to a larger issue in Antiquity. Keywords:Jewish ethnocentric misanthropy; Judaism; Paganism; Paul; Thessalonians","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130348478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Saracens","authors":"A. Hilhorst","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.139","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter begins with Cassian's comments on the promise to Abraham and Abraham's reaction, and then turn to Prosper's. The \"spiritual progeny of Abraham\" can also be described using technically precise theological terms: they are praesciti et praeordinati-\"foreknown and foreordained\" unto life everlasting. The chapter points out that Prosper makes a spirited attack on Cassian and that the two are ranged on opposite sides of a debate, which is typically understood in terms of the normativity of Augustine's theology. The study of the history of ancient Christianity has in recent times been too greatly preoccupied with the doctrines and institutions of Christianity, which can-and in fact still has and does-stifle the historical reconstruction of early Christian systems of thought and the philological study of early Christian literature. Keywords:Abraham's reaction; Augustine's theology; Cassian's comments; Christianity","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117226708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Converting The Missionary Image Of Abraham","authors":"Moshe Lavee","doi":"10.1163/ej.9789004188433.i-578.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004188433.i-578.65","url":null,"abstract":"Hagar, the slave girl, is mentioned only twelve times in the Hebrew Bible eleven times in the stories of Genesis 16 and Gen 21 and once in Gen 25:12. Ishmael enters the stage in Gen 16 to be born in the last verses of the chapter (16:11, 15, 16). It appears that Ishmael has an important role while Hagar plays only a supporting part. In the narratives of Gen 16 and 21, the stories are set in different way. Of the five protagonists, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Hagar, and Ishmael, Hagar is the most important in Gen 16. Focusing on the birth oracle, Gen 16:11 declares that the child of the pregnant woman will be a son who will be called Ishmael. Keywords:Abraham; Genesis; Hagar; Ishmael; Sarah","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128135528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hagar And Paul’s Covenant Thought","authors":"A. Hogeterp","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.114","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of this chapter is the reinterpretation of the story of Hagar and Ishmael in gnostic Christianity. The chapter discusses the allegory of Hagar and Sarah in Gal 4:21–5:1, and the way that Paul connects the barren Sarah with the New Jerusalem of Isa 54:1. Next, it describes how early Christian writers re-interpreted this prophecy in the light of the numerical dominance of the Gentiles in the early Christian movement, and then in the light of the growth of the church in relation to the misfortunes of the Jewish people. The chapter shows how gnostic Christians, and in particular the author of the Gospel of Philip, offered an allegorical reading of Isa 54:1 from the perspective of Paul's Letter to the Galatians. It concludes with Irenaeus' reaction to their interpretation of mainstream Christians as children of the slave woman. Keywords:children; gnostic Christianity; Hagar; Paul; Sarah; slave woman","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132941669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abraham And The Nations In The Book Of Jubilees","authors":"J. V. Ruiten","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.35","url":null,"abstract":"Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten, “Abraham and the Nations in the Book of Jubilees,” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives on Kinship with Abraham (ed. Martin Goodman, George H. van Kooten, and Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten; Themes in Biblical Narrative 13; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010), 105-116.","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132139244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Call Of God And The Response Of Abraham","authors":"A. Casiday","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004188433.I-578.149","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the author concerns with the identification of Islam as the religion of Abraham, a perspective from which Islam is seen, not as a new or variant form of the Middle Eastern monotheist religious tradition, but as the direct continuation of Abraham's religion. After consideration of how the idea of the religion of Abraham appears in, on the one hand, the Qurān and, on the other, the extra-quranic texts of Muslim tradition, the chapter discusses the issue of the historical circumstances that may have led to the appearance of the various ingredients involved in the identification of Islam with the religion of Abraham. The chapter suggests that the Islamic idea of the religion of Abraham should be understood as a product of the religious and social conditions brought about by the Arab conquests in the Middle East. Keywords:Abraham; Islam; Middle Eastern monotheist religious tradition; Muslim tradition; Qurān","PeriodicalId":335853,"journal":{"name":"Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122325979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}