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Which Bible did Abraham carry
- Thread starter Awoon
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Tellurian
Active Member
Enuma Elish? Zend Avesta? Baghavad Gita? Tales of Gigamesh?
Villager
Active Member
The KJV, of course.
Abraham did not have a tribe after he moved from Ur. He had a few relatives, a lot of employees, and a lot of livestock, the main measure of material wealth in those days. The record of Abraham was probably the earliest written part of the Old Testament, which was probably often written long after the events it chronicled. The normal method of transmission of lore within cultures was oral. People had far better memories in the days before printing than most of us have, and societies were much less mobile, and this method was probably more reliable than modern media. The Bible chapters before Abraham were probably added sometime around the time of Moses, and are non-historical allegory.
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Levite
Higher and Higher
None, of course. There was none to be had.
There may have been oral traditions about the creation of the world: some have said that the first eleven chapters of Genesis, which, academically speaking, had their original source in proto-Israelite syncretic mythology, in non-academic terms arguably could have been shaped out of the family mythos of the Chaldean clan that produced Abraham's father and close relatives.
But everything from chapter 12 of Genesis onward is clearly the product of succeeding generations, since it represents the story of Abraham's life to its end, and the stories of those who came after him.
There wasn't any Bible when Abraham was alive.
Gaura Priya
IRL
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Judaism? 
Bob Dixon
>implying
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Judaism?
I don't know...
He looked like more of a "Judaism For Dummies" type of guy.
jtartar
Well-Known Member
Awoon,
Abraham lived over 2,000 years before Christ. Abraham was born in 2,018 BC. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible The Pentateuchin 1,513 before Christ, so Abraham lived about 500 years before the Bible was started. Abraham did not have any writings inspired by Jehovah, his God. Abraham was in a class by himself where revelation was given by what was later called, Bath Kol, where divine revelation was given to certain men before the time of the regular prophets.
Because of Abraham's faith and obedience he became the father of all Christians, Gal 3:29, Rom 4:16,17. Because of Abraham all the nations would be blessed, Gen 22:18, Eph 3:3-7, not just the nation of Israel.
... on a hot, dusty Thursday in a wadii far, far away.
Levite
Higher and Higher
OK, I admit this made me laugh.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
Obviously the NIV
Tellurian
Active Member
jtartar
Your date has to be wrong, or else the story about Moses in Exodus is wrong. Moses is alleged to have said he did not want to travel the coastal route to Canaan because he did not want to run into the Philistines. The Philistines did not arrive in the Levant until a few years after 1185 BCE when the Sea Peoples were trying to conquer Egypt, so Moses could not have been afraid of the Philistines until after they had arrived in the Levant.
Your date has to be wrong, or else the story about Moses in Exodus is wrong. Moses is alleged to have said he did not want to travel the coastal route to Canaan because he did not want to run into the Philistines. The Philistines did not arrive in the Levant until a few years after 1185 BCE when the Sea Peoples were trying to conquer Egypt, so Moses could not have been afraid of the Philistines until after they had arrived in the Levant.
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