Tent of Abraham

Scripture: SQ p. 63-64

Quran links

• http://www.clearquran.com/ a web based trans
• pdf version

Abraham

Story 1

• Bible & midrash
• Opening Genesis
• sent on a Journey: from Ur to ultimately Canaan
• by way of Haran
• YHWH: "One bringing being into being"

• altars to YHWH
• covenant
• no offspring with Sarai, so Hagar
• Ishmael i.e. "God hears"

• circumcision as a sign of covenant
• 3 travelers (angels:messengers)
• bargaining over Sodom
• Sarah bore Isaac "with laughter"
• brothers struggle
  • Heider on "Brothers"

• Abraham sends Hagar & Ishmael into wilderness
• wells and water in the desert
• Isaac bound – to the altar
• burial of Sarah, wife for Isaac
• Keturah: wife of old age (or Hagar?)

The Story in Islam

Narrative is scattered

• Quran, (early) suras, "cosmic hymns and wisdom literature"
• hadith: expansions, commentary, on Quran

• legends provide narrative framework
• Abraham a bulwark against idolatry
• (p.21) an encounter with a tyrant
• Abraham and visits with his first born Ishmael
• shekhinah "divine presence" indicate the spot for a shrine – the Kaaba
• the "sacrifice" of son is unnamed in Quran

Interfaith Amigos

The invitation & the challenge of "interfaith dialogue"

http://www.interfaithamigos.com/Home.html

https://youtu.be/soC_MSUo5Qo

Overview

Timeline of 3 Religions of Abraham

Outline History

Islam 101

courtesy of WhyIslam.org

A chart with links