Abraham's Family

Lukas Bormann: Introduction

Part I: Abraham's Family in the Old Testament
Konrad Schmid: Remembering and Reconstructing Abraham: Abraham's Family and the Literary History of the Pentateuch - Antti Laato: The Abraham Story in Genesis and the Reigns of David and Solomon - Magnar Kartveit: Abraham and Joseph in Samaritan Tradition - Lotta Valve: The "Wooing of Rebekah" and the Methodological Rift between Tradition History and Reception History

Part II: Abraham's Family in Ancient Jewish Literature
Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten: Abraham's Family in the Book of Jubilees - Aliyah El Mansy: "He is perfect, he is a true man!" (Jub. 27:17): Constructions of Masculinities in Abraham's Family - Jesper Høgenhaven: Abraham and his Family in Qumran Biblical Exegesis - Michael Becker: Abraham and the Sacrifice of Isaac in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis: Conceptual Patterns in Development - Christian Noack: Abraham's Family in Philo

Part III: Abraham's Family in the New Testament
Lukas Bormann: Abraham as "Forefather" and his Family in Paul - Angela Standhartinger: Member of Abraham's Family? Hagar's Gender, Status, Ethnos, and Religion in Early Jewish and Christian Texts - Christfried Böttrich: Abraham and his Children in Luke-Acts - Guido Baltes: The Prodigal Son and his Angry Brother: Jacob and Esau in a Parable of Jesus? - J. Cornelis de Vos: Abraham's Family in the Epistle to the Hebrews - Eva-Maria Kreitschmann: Abraham's Family Network in the New Testament Writings

Part IV: Abraham's Family in Early Christian Literature
Martin Meiser: Abraham and His Family in Ancient Greek and Latin Patristic Exegesis - Anni Maria Laato: Divided by a Common Ground: The Prophecy of Jacob and Esau (Gen 25: 19-26) in Patristic Texts up to Augustine with respect to Modern Inter-Faith Dialogue - Michaela Durst: Abraham and Hellenismos in Julian the Apostate's Contra Galilaeos: Challenging Christian Knowledge about the Divine

Part V: Abraham's Family in Jewish Exegesis and in Encounter with Islam
Reuven Firestone: Hagar and Ishmael in Literature and Tradition as a foreshadow of their Islamic Personas - Mariano Gomez Aranda: The Conflict between Jacob and Esau in Medieval Jewish Exegesis: Reinterpreting Narratives - Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler: Maqam Ibrahim and the Sacred Landscape of Mecca According to Ibn Jubayr - Catalin-Stefan Popa: Syrians and the Appeal to Abraham in the Early Islamic Times