I, Abraham
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What would old Abraham tell us if he could talk to us today from his tent in southern Canaan? What would he say about sacrificing his son Isaac? about Sodom and his fickle nephew Lot? about Lot’s wife turning to a pillar of salt? about his wife Sarah taken into Pharaoh’s harem? Read here, in first-person style, what Hebrew Patriarch Abraham has to say about his life’s adventures.
Edwin Walhout
I am a retired minister of the Christian Reformed Church, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being retired from professional life, I am now free to explore theology without the constraints of ecclesiastical loyalties. You will be challenged by the ebooks I am supplying on Smashwords.
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I, Abraham - Edwin Walhout
I, Abraham
First-person Transcriptions from the Old Testament Patriarch
by Edwin Walhout
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Father Terah
2 Monotheism
3 Egypt
4 El Shaddai
5 Lot
6 Melchizedek
7 Covenant
8 Hagar
9 Circumcision
10 Visitors
11 Sodom
12 Lot’s Wife
13 Isaac and Ishmael
14 Beersheba
15 Isaac Sacrificed
16 Machpelah
17 Rebekah
18 Keturah
Time Travel Plans
My very first trip back into time was a visit to the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, which I recorded elsewhere. Now I am reporting on my second visit, this time to another important Biblical person who lived more than a millennium before Jeremiah: Abraham.
It was difficult to find Abraham at the right time in his life when he could tell about his earlier life. After several wrong tries, we found him living in a comfortable tent near the city of Hebron. Abraham was well over one hundred years old by then.
1 Father Terah
Abraham thinks that I am an angel come to visit him from El-Shaddai in heaven. I ask him to tell me about his life as far back as he can remember. He seemed pleased to talk about his childhood in the city of Ur.
You ask me about my childhood. When I was a boy, I lived on a farm just outside a large city far away from here to the east, with my mother, father Terah, and two brothers Haran and Nahor. The city was called Ur (in modern Iraq).
I remember it fairly well, since I lived there for twenty years. The city had walls around it and the Euphrates River flowed around it on two sides. Each of these two sides had a harbor inside the wall. A canal ran all the way around the city to protect us during times of war. Inside the city near the river was a great temple. We called a ziggurat. It was made of large clay bricks and had a great wide stairway with hundreds of steps that led up to the top. On the top was a large platform on which the temple itself was built.
The priests of Marduk did their work in the temple. Once a year they let people climb to the top to worship the gods. I remember the first time my father Terah took me up those steps. I was twelve years old. What an exciting time that was, climbing those great stairs, moving up onto the platform so close to heaven! I remember watching the priests go about their work, listening to them chant their songs, watching their faces. I was enthralled wondering what it all meant.
I remember those celebrations very well. I grew up believing there are gods in everything, all around us, gods who control everything that happens. I took my responsibility to the gods very seriously. As I look back, I think it was then that I became truly religious, believing in the gods.
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