The Woman Who Named God : Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (Hardcover)

from adamtarn

Stories about the Abraham saga abound so I give Charlotte Gordon credit for writing yet another book that attempts to fill in the many gaps that the Hebrew scriptures leave for one's imagination. What is unique about this work are the many sources she draws on to fill in those gaps. Gordon draws ...

from tututhefirst

A very readable very scholarly discussion of Abraham's families and their antecedents in modern day religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. While this could have been very dry and borying, it wasn't. Gordon covers Abram's entire life from his call by God to leave his home and move to a new o...

from VickiLN

This book is full of facinating information on Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. It is full of insights into their relationships, their day to day lives, and their impact on history. I thought I knew a lot about them from reading the Bible, but there is information in this book that I didn't know. There ...

from tututhefirst

A very readable very scholarly discussion of Abraham's families and their antecedents in modern day religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. While this could have been very dry and borying, it wasn't. Gordon covers Abram's entire life from his call by God to leave his home and move to a new o...

from VickiLN

This book is full of facinating information on Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. It is full of insights into their relationships, their day to day lives, and their impact on history. I thought I knew a lot about them from reading the Bible, but there is information in this book that I didn't know. There ...