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August 24, 2018
Resurrecting Abraham: Jews, Christians, & Muslims—Past and Present
- Topics
- Sacred Texts > Bible > Hebrew Bible > Study of Religion > Comparative Approaches to Religion > World Religions
- Course Level Format
- online and f2f
- Instructor & Institution
- Taylor Halverson, Indiana University
- Course Term & Year
- Fall 2014
A 2014 course taught by Taylor Halverson at Indiana University examines the Abraham stories of the Hebrew Bible and the "emergence of Judaism and its use of Abraham to create religious identity" and how Christianity and Islam also look to Abraham as a "guiding figure in religious development."