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flourished early 2nd millennium BC
First of the Hebrew Judaism , Christianity , and Islam .
Genesis tells how Abraham, at 75, left Ur with his barren wife, Sarai (later Sarah ), and others to found a new nation in Canaan . There God made a covenant with him, promising that his descendants would inherit the land and become a great nation. Abraham fathered Ishmael by Sarah's maidservant Hagar; Sarah herself bore Isaac, who inherited the covenant. Abraham's faith was tested when God ordered him to sacrifice Isaac; he was prepared to obey but God relented. In Judaism he is a model of virtue, in Christianity he is the father of all believers, and in Islam he is an ancestor of Muhammad and a model (in Sufism ) of generosity.
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Nelson Ahlgren Abraham
Cowley Abraham
Darby Abraham
Dukas Paul Abraham
Flexner Abraham
Gallatin Abraham Alfonse Albert
Geiger Abraham
Grierson Sir George Abraham
Heschel Abraham Joshua
Idelsohn Abraham Zevi
Kuyper Abraham
Lincoln Abraham
Maslow Abraham Harold
Michelson Albert Abraham
Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille
Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson
Roentgen Abraham
Abraham Stoker
Waksman Selman Abraham
Werner Abraham Gottlob