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<big><b>Approaching Abraham</big></b><br>

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===Birth and Name of Abraham===

According to the Tanakh, a standardized Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible, places Abraham's birth 1,948 years after the Creation, or 1948 ''anno mundi''. The two other major textual traditions have different dates, the translated Greek [[Septuagint]] putting it at 3312 AM and the [[Samaritan Pentateuch|Samaritan version of the Torah]] at 2247 AM. All three agree that he died at the age of 175.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grisda.org/origins/07023.htm |title=G.F. Hasel, "Chronogenealogies in the Biblical History of Beginnings" |publisher=Grisda.org |accessdate=2 March 2010}}</ref> 

There have been over two hundred attempts to match the biblical chronology to dates in history, two of the more influential being the traditional Jewish dates (Abraham lived 1812 BCE to 1637 BCE), and those of the 17th century Archbishop [[James Ussher]] (1976 BCE to 1801 BCE); but the most that can be said with some degree of certainty is that the standard Hebrew text of Genesis places Abraham in the earlier part of the second millennium BCE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03731a.htm |title="Biblical Chronology", Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |publisher=Newadvent.org |date=1 November 1908 |accessdate=2 March 2010}}</ref>








[[Terah]], the tenth in descent from [[Noah]], fathered Abram, [[Nahor]] and [[Haran]], and Haran fathered [[Lot (Bible)|Lot]]. Haran died in his native [[Ur of the Chaldees]], and Abram married [[Sarah|Sarai]], who was barren. Terah, with <!-- NOT Nahor, -->Abram, Sarai and Lot, then departed for Canaan, but settled in a place named [[Haran (Biblical place)|Haran]], where Terah died at the age of 205. ({{Bibleverse||Genesis|11:27–11:32|HE}})⏎
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=== Abram's calling ===


[[Yahweh|God]] appeared to Abram and told him to depart. After settling in Haran, where his father Terah died, God then told Abram to leave his country and his father’s house for a land that He would show him, promising to make of him a great nation, [[blessing|bless]] him, make his name great, bless those who blessed him, and curse those who cursed him. ({{Bibleverse||Genesis|12:1–3|HE}}) Following God’s command, at age 75, Abram took his wife [[Sarah|Sarai]], his nephew Lot,(contracted; show full)ns&source=bl&ots=aFute0p0_x&sig=ES0qi7jA4zyCXLIMs3sac2cyvOg&hl=en&ei=wSYLTavKBsnprAfZuenxCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Abraham&f=false "Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible", K. van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst (eds) (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing), pp.3–4]</ref> Some oral traditions, however, may still hold an earlier history.<ref name="books.google.com.au"/>