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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Then suddenly in Chapter 12, we turn to something else: the story of Abraham and thus the origins of the Hebraic people.
With this call that Abraham receives from God,
the Lord said unto Abraham, "Leave this land and your ancestors, the house of your father, and go to the land that I will show you."
[Narrator] The Bible describes the Patriarch Abraham, his wife Sarah, and his nephew Lot leaving their land with their herds, and heading for the promised land, in response to a divine order.
The Biblical text describes a veritable migration over thousands of kilometres, from Mesopotamia toward Egypt, and then Canaan.
In accordance with the romantic and orientalist conceptions of the period,
20th century researchers imagined Abraham as a bedouin ...
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