2016/09/01 by Joseph Blenkinsopp · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Medieval and Classical Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1177/0309089216646522
openalex publication_date 2016/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
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.