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Who was the “historical” Abraham and where did he come from? It is difficult to find an unambiguous answer to these questions. The article focuses on analyzing the Egyptian text from the time of Sheshonq I which mentions a place sometimes identified as “Abram’s field / fort”. However, this interpretation is pointed out as being uncertain and even very questionable. The next two points of analysis are biblical texts (Deut 26:5a; Gen 11:27-32). The names of Abraham’s family members are toponymic (male) or sym-bolic (female), constituting female nicknames associated with the worship of the moon god. Their analysis suggests the region of Charan, between the Euphrates and Habur riv-ers, where the worship of the moon god was very popular. These areas were previous-ly inhabited by the Amorites, and then by the Arameans. The article concludes that the “historical” Abraham may have come from the vicinity of Charan and had Amorite roots, while identification with the Arameans was only a typological element resulting from the experience of the same fate (deuteronomist). It was only later reinterpreted in favor of Jacob (cf. Gen 46:1-7), and finally in favor of Abraham in the final edition.
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Zainteresowanie wędrówką Teracha z Ur do Charanu wiąże się z próbą wskazania elementów lunarnych, jakie mogą występować w tekście Rdz 11,27–32. Izrael nie był hermetycznie zamkniętą wspólnotą i wiele elementów znanych z systemów religijnych starożytnego Bliskiego Wschodu przeniknęło do tekstów biblijnych. Opracowanie ma na celu ukazanie tych elementów z historii wędrówki Teracha, które mogą potwierdzać lub przeczyć wpływom kultów lunarnych na tekst z Księgi Rodzaju.
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The interest of Terah’s journey from Ur to Harran is connected with an attempt to indicate lunar elements that could occur in Gen. 11:27–32. Israel wasn’t a hermetic community and many of elements that were known from religion systems of ancient Near East penetrated on the layer of biblical texts. The main goal of this scientific description is to exhibition these elements in Terah’s journey. Occurs of these elements could confirm or deny the influence of lunar cults on text from the Book of Genesis.
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