Kinship as the accounts give it
The family of Abraham
Foundational legendary figure among adherents of the eponymous Abrahamic religions
Text Judaism
Tanakh
תנ"ך he
Canon of the Hebrew Bible, written mostly in Hebrew with some Aramaic
- Also called Hebrew Bible, Jewish Bible, Mikrá
A text has a date.
What it tells
may not.
Two clocks, kept apart
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Follow the text
Stories and families in it
Each on its own page, where this text is one account among others.
Figures
Who appears in it
Gods and people whose own records say they appear in this work.
What this means
Read from the other end: computed from those records, not from this one. A figure appearing here does not make this the only account of them, and a relationship attested in this work holds in this work.
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Parts
Works within it
Works recorded as part of this one. Each date is that work’s own, on the source clock.
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Psalms
book of the Bible, has five booksWritten no date recorded -
Torah
first five books of the Hebrew BibleWritten no date recorded -
Leviticus
third book of the BibleWritten no date recorded -
Book of Numbers
fourth book of BibleWritten no date recorded -
Joshua
sixth book of the BibleWritten no date recorded -
Judges
seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old TestamentWritten no date recorded -
Books of Samuel
a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books in the Christian Old TestamentWritten no date recorded -
Pentateuch
first five books of the BibleWritten no date recorded -
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Ketuvim
third and final section of the TanakhWritten no date recorded
Connections
How Tanakh connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
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.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- 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.
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