Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration from Hebrew
Abbreviations
Introduction • Who Was (and Is) Abraham?
Chapter One • Call and Commission
Chapter Two • Frustrations and Fulfillments
Chapter Three • The Test
Chapter Four • The Rediscovery of God
Chapter Five • Torah or Gospel?
Chapter Six • One Abraham or Three?
Notes
Index of Primary Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Suggested Reading
Eight Families and the 18 Percent
Whether it’s 18 percent or eight families, Gordon Tucker maintains “patience and tenaciousness change the world,” a fact that is lost when we focus on numbers.
On a Story by Delmore Schwartz
In 1937, the editors at Partisan Review placed “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” by a 24-year old unknown improbably named Delmore Schwartz before pieces by Wallace Stevens, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Pablo Picasso, to relaunch their magazine. They knew what they were doing.
History and Polemic: An Exchange
Eric Alterman and Allan Arkush have a heated exchange on Israel, American Jewry, and the role of a historian.
Nostalgia for the Numinous
In the beginning there were the angry atheists. Terry Eagleton is more melancholy: “Atheism is by no means as easy as it looks.”
