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Landgrab: Abraham EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham parody.Landgrab: Abraham Gustafsson Stenbock EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham Gustafsson Stenbock parody.Landgrab: Abraham Lincoln EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham Lincoln parody.

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Abraham SykesThe version your group chat keeps imagining.Bernhard AbrahamThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.Shaun AbrahamsThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.

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Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad. The story of the life of Abraham as told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis revolves around the themes of posterity and land. He is said to have been called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son, by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah's grave, thus establishing his right to the land; and, in the second generation, his heir Isaac is married to a woman from his own kin, thus ruling the Canaanites out of any inheritance. Abraham later marries Keturah and has six more sons; but, on his death, when he is buried beside Sarah, it is Isaac who receives "all Abraham's goods" while the other sons receive only "gifts". Most scholars view the patriarchal age, along with the Exodus and the period of the biblical judges, as a late literary construct that does not relate to any particular historical era, and after a century of exhaustive archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for a historical Abraham. It is largely concluded that the Torah, the series of books that includes Genesis, was composed during the early Persian period, , as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in Judah during the Babylonian captivity and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counterclaim on Moses and the Exodus tradition of the Israelites. The Abraham cycle

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Notable quotes

“I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the highest God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich…”
— To the King of Sodom, in Hebrews 14:22 - 23 (KJV)
“And when Abraham said (unto his Lord): My Lord! Show me how Thou givest life to the dead, He said: Dost thou not believe? Abraham said: Yea, but (I ask) in order that my heart may be at ease. (His Lord) said: Take four of the birds and cause them to incline unto thee, then place a part of them on each hill, then call them, they will come to thee in haste, and know that Allah is Mighty, Wise.”
— Quran 2:260, trans. Muhammad M. Pickthall.
“O our Lord ! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.”
— Prayer during the construction of the Kaaba with Ishmael as quoted in the Quran, Al Baqara 2:127.
“Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the famine might be turned away from my father’s house, that they might not perish.”
— Book of Abraham 2:17
“The coins of Abraham had the figure of an old man and an old woman on the face of the coin, and those of a youth and a maiden on the obverse, signifying that after Abraham and Sarah had grown old their youth was renewed and they begat a son.”
— 39, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 79.
“[P]utrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue.”
— Apocalypse of Abraham 31:5

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad.

Overview

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad. The story of the life of Abraham as told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis revolves around the themes of posterity and land. He is said to have been called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son, by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah's grave, thus establishing his right to the land; and, in the second generation, his heir Isaac is married to a woman from his own kin, thus ruling the Canaanites out of any inheritance. Abraham later marries Keturah and has six more sons; but, on his death, when he is buried beside Sarah, it is Isaac who receives "all Abraham's goods" while the other sons receive only "gifts". Most scholars view the patriarchal age, along with the Exodus and the period of the biblical judges, as a late literary construct that does not relate to any particular historical era, and after a century of exhaustive archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for a historical Abraham. It is largely concluded that the Torah, the series of books that includes Genesis, was composed during the early Persian period, , as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in Judah during the Babylonian captivity and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counterclaim on Moses and the Exodus tradition of the Israelites. The Abraham cycle

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named Abraham: 10th-century drama by Hrotsvitha · fl. 1826–1845 , "Prophet", Seminole leader · 1994 television movie directed by Joseph Sargent · Coptic saint

Notable quotes

“I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the highest God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet, and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich…”
— To the King of Sodom, in Hebrews 14:22 - 23 (KJV)
“And when Abraham said (unto his Lord): My Lord! Show me how Thou givest life to the dead, He said: Dost thou not believe? Abraham said: Yea, but (I ask) in order that my heart may be at ease. (His Lord) said: Take four of the birds and cause them to incline unto thee, then place a part of them on each hill, then call them, they will come to thee in haste, and know that Allah is Mighty, Wise.”
— Quran 2:260, trans. Muhammad M. Pickthall.
“O our Lord ! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.”
— Prayer during the construction of the Kaaba with Ishmael as quoted in the Quran, Al Baqara 2:127.
“Now I, Abraham, built an altar in the land of Jershon, and made an offering unto the Lord, and prayed that the famine might be turned away from my father’s house, that they might not perish.”
— Book of Abraham 2:17
“The coins of Abraham had the figure of an old man and an old woman on the face of the coin, and those of a youth and a maiden on the obverse, signifying that after Abraham and Sarah had grown old their youth was renewed and they begat a son.”
— 39, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 79.
“[P]utrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue.”
— Apocalypse of Abraham 31:5

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Abraham across IJR

In the Arcade

Landgrab: Abraham EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham parody.Landgrab: Abraham Gustafsson Stenbock EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham Gustafsson Stenbock parody.Landgrab: Abraham Lincoln EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Abraham Lincoln parody.

Studio characters

Abraham SykesThe version your group chat keeps imagining.Bernhard AbrahamThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.Shaun AbrahamsThe late-night sketch version — live in your chat.

Ask IJR about Abraham Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos