A Prayer for Guidance

1915 The Biblical World  
There is thus an interval of 1,300 years between Abraham and the earliest of the documents of Genesis, and of i,6oo years between him and the latest of these documents. Under these conditions we cannot expect to find exact history in the stories of the patriarchs. Having now considered the Babylonian and the Hebrew sources for the Amorite period to which Abraham is assigned by the fourteenth chapter of Genesis, in the next article we shall consider the nature and historical character of the Old Testament traditions in regard to Abraham.
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