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Abraham
Abraham ist als Stammvater Israels eine zentrale Figur des Tanachs bzw. des Alten Testaments. Genauso gilt er als Stammvater der Araber; von seinem Sohn Ismael soll der Prophet des Islam, Mohammed, abstammen. Abrahams Geschichte wird im biblischen Buch Genesis bzw. Bereschit erzählt. Danach gehört er zusammen mit seinem Sohn Isaak und seinem Enkel Jakob zu den Erzvätern, aus denen laut biblischer Überlieferung die Zwölf Stämme des Volkes Israel hervorgingen.
Da sich sowohl Judentum, Christentum als auch Islam auf Abraham als ihren Stammvater beziehen, bezeichnet man sie auch als die drei abrahamitischen Religionen.
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„Durch den Glauben ward gehorsam Abraham, da er berufen ward, auszugehen in das Land, das er ererben sollte; und ging aus und wußte nicht wo er hinkäme. Durch den Glauben ist er ein Fremdling gewesen in dem verheißenen Lande als in einem fremden und wohnte in Hütten mit Isaak und Jakob, den Miterben derselben Verheißung; denn er wartete auf eine Stadt, die einen Grund hat, der Baumeister und Schöpfer Gott ist.“
— Abraham
Hebräer 11,8-10 Luther 1912
„Durch den Glauben opferte Abraham den Isaak, da er versucht ward, und gab dahin den Eingeborenen, da er schon die Verheißungen empfangen hatte, von welchem gesagt war: "In Isaak wird dir dein Same genannt werden"; und dachte, Gott kann auch wohl von den Toten auferwecken; daher er auch ihn zum Vorbilde wiederbekam.“
— Abraham
Hebräer 11,17-19 Luther 1912
„Allah erwählte Adam und Noah und das Haus Abrahams und das Haus Imrâns.“
— Abraham
Sure 3, 33 (Ahmadiyya) Onlinetext
„Wir glauben an Allah und was zu uns herabgesandt worden, und was herabgesandt ward Abraham und Ismael und Isaak und Jakob und (seinen) Kindern, und was gegeben ward Moses und Jesus, und was gegeben ward (allen anderen) Propheten von ihrem Herrn. Wir machen keinen Unterschied zwischen ihnen; und Ihm ergeben wir uns.“
— Abraham
Sure 2, 136 (Ahmadiyya) Onlinetext
„Erzähle, was in diesem Buch über Abraham steht. Er war ein Mann der Wahrheit, ein Prophet.“
— Abraham
Sure 19, 41 (Ahmadiyya) Onlinetext
„Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there?“
— Abraham
Context: Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly? … Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, who am but dust and ashes. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five? … Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there?
To the LORD regarding the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, in Genesis 18:22 - 32 (KJV), after which, it is recorded that the LORD responds: I will not destroy it for ten's sake. <!-- And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. -->
„Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.“
— Abraham
Context: Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
To his nephew Lot, as quoted in Genesis 13:8 (KJV)
„This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.“
— Abraham
Context: I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.
To Abimelech in the wife-sister narrative of Genesis 20:11 - 23 (KJV)
„Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?“
— Abraham
Context: Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly? … Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, who am but dust and ashes. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt Thou destroy all the city for lack of five? … Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Peradventure ten shall be found there?
To the LORD regarding the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, in Genesis 18:22 - 32 (KJV), after which, it is recorded that the LORD responds: I will not destroy it for ten's sake. <!-- And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. -->
„O our Lord! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.“
— Abraham
Prayer during the construction of the Kaaba with Ishmael as quoted in the Koran, Al Baqara [http://quranx.com/2.127 2:127].
„I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich…“
— Abraham
To the King of Sodom, in Genesis 14:22 - 23 (KJV)
