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Abraham

אברהם he ܐܒܪܗܡ arc إبراهيم ar

Foundational legendary figure among adherents of the eponymous Abrahamic religions

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Offices on record

Overview

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Life

2 offices on record

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

  1. Template-Patriarch (Latin Rite) - Primate
    Dates unrecorded patriarch
  2. Dates unrecorded prophet

Family

The family of Abraham

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As the accounts tell it
The family as a list · 19

Kinship in an account 18

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Family 1

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Religious context

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

What this means

A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.

Texts

In the texts

Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.

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Also in films, games and series: Abraham, Once Upon a Time... Man

History

Recorded events

What Abraham’s own record names in its history. None of the statements carries a date.

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.

Recorded, with no date on the statement

Connections

How Abraham connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 3

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Identification 1

What this means

One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

78 statements on this record

  • 14 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 64 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

User:KetefHinnomFan · CC0

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