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By Charles Johnston:
My last article in this series focused on the life of Abraham (that post can be found Here), and this post couldve been included as part of Abrahams story, but it was running long and so Im making this its own post.(See Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs for a detailed treatment on the faith of Abraham)
Abraham and Hagar
Several times in Genesis, Abraham is promised an heir by God. Abraham is told hell have a son, and that son will have descendants more numerous than sand on the sea shore.
After years of waiting, Abraham and Sarah decide to take Gods timing into their own hands, and Abraham has a son with Sarahs slave, Hagar.
Now Sarai, Abrams wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar; and Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abrams wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. (Genesis ,)
Sarah and Abraham jumped the gun, so to speak, and decided that God mustve meant He was going to give Abraham a son through Hagar. But what they failed to realize, and hindsight is always 20/20, was that God could give them a son at anytime, but was waiting until it was beyond a natural possibility for Sarah to bear a child.
By going with what they thought was right, rather than waiting on God, they set up their descendants for lots of strife. Ishmael is not the son of promise to Abraham, but God makes him a great nation anyway, and his descendants become the Ishmaelites and later called Arabs.
Birth of According to the Bible, Abraham (or Abram) was the father of the Hebrews. The Biblical account of the life of Abram is found in Gen. xi. 26 to xxv. According to this narrative, he was the son of Terah and was born at Ur of the Chaldees. Terah, with Abram, Sarai (Abram's wife), and Lot (Abram's nephew), left Ur to go to the land of Canaan; but they tarried at Haran, where Terah died (Gen. xi. ). There the Lord appeared to Abram in the first of a series of visions, and bade him leave the country with his family, promising to make of him a great nation (ib. xii. ), a promise that was renewed on several occasions. Accordingly, Abram with Sarai and Lot started for Canaan; and at the site of Sichem (or Shechem) the Lord promised the land as an inheritance to the patriarch's seed. After so-journing for a while between Beth-el and Hai (or Ai), Abram, on account of a famine, went to Egypt. Here, to guard against Pharaoh's jealousy, he passed Sarai off as his sister. Pharaoh took her into the royal household, but, discovering the deception, released her and sent Abram and his family away (ib. xii. ). Abram returned northward to his former place of sojourn between Beth-el and Hai. There his shepherds quarreled with those of Lot, and the uncle and nephew separated, Lot going east to Sodom, while Abram remained in Canaan (ib. xiii. ). Again the Lord appeared to the patriarch, and promised him an abundant progeny which should inherit the land of Canaan (ib. xiii. ). Abram now removed to Mamre (ib. xiii. 18) inHebron, whence he made a successful expedition against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and his confederate kings, from whom he rescued Lot, whom Chedorlaomer had captured in the course of an attack upon Sodom and Gomorrah. On his return from this expedition, Abram was blessed by Melchizedek, king of Salem, and refused to retain the recaptured booty offered him by the king of Sodom (ib. xiv.). Once more the Sincere followers of Christ love the Scriptures. We find that they speak to our lives in many different and very personal ways. This is a precious truth about Scripture that Christians should never forget. But many times this wonderfully personal dimension of Scripture can actually cause us to lose sight of something that we must always remember. The Bible was not written directly to you or me. In the first place, Scripture was written to other people who lived thousands of years ago. So as we try to understand how the Scriptures apply to our lives today, we must always be careful to base our modern applications on the original meaning of Scripture. This is a series of lessons that we have entitled Father Abraham. And in these lessons we are exploring the account of Abraham's life that appears in Genesis – This is the second of three introductory lessons, and we have entitled this lesson "The Life of Abraham: Original Meaning." In this lesson we will see how important it is to read the stories of Abraham's life in light of when they were written and to whom they were written. We will explore the original impact these stories were intended to have on the nation of Israel as they followed Moses toward the Promised Land. We will explore the original meaning of Genesis – by looking at two main issues. First, we will point out how Moses drew connections between the history of Abraham's life and the experiences of his original audience. And second, we will summarize some of the implications these connections had for the original audience. Before we look at the original meaning of the life of Abraham, we should take a moment to review what we saw in the previous lesson. Up to this point, we have focused on two critical issues. First, we suggested that Genesis reveals four major themes in the story of Abraham. God's kindness to Abraham (the many ways God showed mercy to the patriarch), The Bible is about real people and real history, not made-up characters who lived in some Never-Never Land. To me, it makes a difference; otherwise, we’re all just talking about whose favorite myth is better than whose. Granted, we don’t always have enough information to verify the facts on how we know that a given character existed, or what they actually did or said. But I always get excited when a Biblical character who was once dismissed as a myth gets rediscovered in the archaeological dirt of ancient history. Such is the case for both Abraham and the enemies he fought in Genesis Abraham himself has been doubted by many modern scholars, who regard him as little more than a legendary Robin Hood. But the name Ab-ram (Abraham’s original name until Genesis 17) is found in Near Eastern texts in the correct neighborhood in the correct time period (around BC ± years). We have not found the specific Abram son of Terah from Genesis, but his name is not a fictional name. But we have found the specific king who led his allies to storm the cities surrounding Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis Gerard Gertoux, Assyriologist at the University of Lyon, France, has written an amazing study that details what we know about Chedorla‘omer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Arioch king of Ellasar, and even Amenemhat I king of Egypt, whom he pinpoints as the king who tried to marry Abram’s wife. Only the unknown Amraphel king of Shinar (Amar-pi-ilum?) does he assign to a gap in our data. Gertoux identifies Kudur-Lagamar, who began his reign in the twelfth year of the reign of Šulgi king of Akkad, as the Biblical Chedorla‘omer who led the attack on Sodom. He also identifies Eri-Aku king of Larsa as the Biblical Arioch king of Ellasar, and Tudḫula king of as the Biblical Tidal king of Goyim. (I would add that because an archaic Hebrew letter yod and an archaic letter taw could easily be confused, the name Goyim here is pro The Life of Abraham: Original Meaning