Abraham

of these articles treats the Biblical Patriarchen Abraham. Further meanings see under Abraham (name).
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Abraham (hebr. אברהם, Arab: ابرَاهِيم, Ibrahim), the Hirte and owner of herd, is a centralFigure of the old person of will and/or. the Hebrew Bible, which sees it as a master father of Israel. Its history is told in the genesis. Afterwards it together with Isaak and Jakob belong to loud Biblical excessive quantity that to the ore fathers, from thoseTwelve-master federation of the people Israel came out. Whether Abraham was however actually a historical figure, is doubtful; there are not except-Biblical certifications over it anyhow.

Abraham applies in the Biblical and Jewish excessive quantity as „a master father of the people Israel “. From Abraham lead themselvesthe Judentum, the Islam and the Christianity equally off. Therefore one calls all three also abrahamitische religions. In its Trialog the figure of the master father plays a large role. The Abrahamserzählung is in the first book Mose (genesis) 12- to find 25.

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Abraham RK

of the Abraham was called originally Abram and as a father of the monotheistischen religions one regards.Together with its father Terach it had moved from Ur in Chaldäa (the south today's Iraq) after Harran ( with Şanlıurfa , Turkey). There it was appointed by God and with his childless Mrs. Sarai and his nephew Plumb bob into the country Kanaan skillfully. Here God of the excessive quantity wants to make a large people according to from it. His 70-jährige woman did not believe the fact that it could bear their man a child and gave it its farm servant Hagar, with thatAbram Ismael witnessed.

God closed new “federation with Abraham one and demanded cutting. It gave Abram and Sarai new names: Abraham and Sara. When it appears Abraham a further mark, it quits the birth of a son to it alsoSara on (as well as the fall Sodoms). Sara becomes actual more schwanger and bears Isaak, than Abraham is one hundred years old, whereupon she offends to Hagar and Ismael. The Biblical narration, after the God Abrahams faith on the sample places, byit it instructs to sacrifice its son Isaak (sacrificing Isaaks), reflects after modern interpretation the break with the people victim. The Widder, which is sacrificed instead of Isaak, is sacrificed in the consequence with Hirtennomaden. After death SarasAbraham Ketura takes itself to the woman, who bore him up to its death six further sons. The narration of “almost” - victim of the Isaak plays after the Biblical certification on a mountain in the country Morija. After Jewish excessive quantity it actsitself here around the temple mountain in Jerusalem.

Abraham in the Islam

in the Islam is considered to Ibrahim (Abraham) as prophet, which recognized that there is only one God. The Wallfahrt after Mekka (Hadsch) goes to IslamicView on Ibrahim back. Likewise its readiness is praised to sacrifice its son (after Muslim view Isma'il) for the only God. With its son Isma'il (Ismael), which it Hadschar (Hagar) bore, applies it for the Islam as a master father of the Arabs. The Muslims honour his grave in Hebron (aluminium-Chalîl).

quotations

  • „and Abram continued to speak: You gave me no seeds; and see, one of my Gesinde should be my inheritance. And see, the GENTLEMAN spoke to it:It should not be your inheritance; separates that from your body will come, that is your inheritance to be. And it was called it goes out and spoke: See towards skies and count the stars; can you count it? and spoke to it:Thus your Same is to become. Abram believed the GENTLEMAN, and he counted him to the justice. “ (1. 15.3-6 shown after the Luther Bible edition 1912) „
  • he spoke Mose there to Abram: You are to know that that your Same will be strange ina country, which its is not; and there one will force it to serve and will trouble four hundred years. But I want to arrange the people, who they must serve. Darnach are to take it off with large property. And you are to drive tooyour fathers with peace and at good age to be buried. They however are to again come to four man men here; because the measurement budget of the Amoriter is not full yet. ... On the day the GENTLEMAN made a federation with Abram andspoke: I want to give this country to your seed, from the water of Egypt on to to the large water Euphrates. “ (1. Mose 15.13-16.18 shown after the Elberfelder Bible edition 1905)
  • „speak: „We believe in Allah and in what us down-sentis, and which was down-sent Abraham, Ismael, Isaak, the Jakobs and the trunks (Israel), and which was given Moses and Jesus, and which was given the prophets by its gentleman. We do not make a difference between them, and it are weresulted in. ““ (Sure 2, Ayat 136 approximate meaning of the Quran in German language, Mohammed Rassoul, IB publishing house Islamic library)

see also

literature

  • Robert March in oh pool of broadcasting corporations, Klaus Berger, Rolf P. Schmitz, January Hjärpe: Abraham I. In the old person will II. In the Frühjudentum and new will III. In the Judentum IV. Religion-historically. In: Theological material encyclopedia 1 (1977), S.364-387
  • Thomas Hieke: Abram/Abraham. In: BBKL 24 (2005), frame. 1-49 on-line
  • Thomas Hieke: Abraham. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen (Hrsg.): Scientific Internet encyclopedia to the old person will 2004 www.wilat.de

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