Biblical Views: Safeguarding Abraham

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After Abraham enters Canaan in Genesis 12, God informs him, “To your offspring I will give this land” (12:7). Shockingly, just one chapter later, Abraham offers to share this very land with his nephew Lot!

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Footnotes

1. Steven Collins, “Where Is Sodom?” BAR, 39:2.

Endnotes

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Homilies on Genesis 33.13. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis 18-45, trans. Robert C. Hill (Washington D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1990).

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b. Nazir 23a. The Babylonian Talmud, trans. Isidore Epstein, 18 vols. (London: Soncino, 1948).

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Pesikta Rabbati 3.3. Pesikta Rabbati, trans. William G. Braude, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1968).

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Midrash Tanḥuma 4.12. Midrash Tanḥuma—Yelammedenu: An English Translation of Genesis and Exodus, trans. Samuel A. Berman (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1996).

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Genesis Rabbah 41.7. Midrash Rabbah, trans. Harry Freedman and Maurice Simon, 10 vols. (London: Soncino Press, 1961).

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On Abraham 2.6.33. Saint Ambrose of Milan, On Abraham, trans. Theodosia Tomkinson (Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2000).