Explore texts tagged with Abraham, Friend of God
2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Hebrew Bible
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Early Christian
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Although the book of Genesis never calls Abraham the friend of God, two later passages in the Hebrew Bible describe him as such, and from this the title grew into a tradition about Abraham throughout Second Temple Judaism, and into Christian and Rabbinic traditions. Jewish writers used it to describe his closeness to God and the faithfulness he showed under testing, and many connected this to his willingness to offer Isaac.
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