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- Title
Patriarch and Prophet: Abraham's Prophetic Characteristics in Genesis.
- Authors
TODD, JAY
- Abstract
In Gen 20:7, YHWH refers to Abraham as a prophet, thus distinguishing Abraham as the first person explicitly identified as a prophet (...) in the Hebrew Bible. Unfortunately, the relevant secondary literature (prophetic introductions, biblical theologies, and theologies of the Pentateuch) has given minimal attention to Abraham's prophetic role. This article attempts to correct this oversight by examining Abraham's prophetic characteristics in the Abrahamic narrative (Gen 11:27-25:11). After outlining general prophetic characteristics given in the Pentateuch and the rest of the Hebrew Bible, this article highlights Abraham's prophetic characteristics in order to demonstrate Abraham's role as a prophet in the biblical text. The article's final section compares and contrasts Abraham with two other prophets in the Pentateuch, Balaam and Moses, in order to identify possible implications for the theology of the Pentateuch.
- Subjects
PATRIARCHS (Bible); BIBLE. Genesis -- Biography; PATRIARCHS (Bible) in rabbinical literature; PROPHETS in rabbinical literature; ABRAHAM (Biblical patriarch)
- Publication
Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, 2014, Vol 3, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
2169-2882
- Publication type
Article