The patriarch Abraham (c. 1996 BC-1821 BC) started with humble beginnings as a son of Ur. Abraham is now regarded as one of the most influential people in all of history. The world's three largest monotheistic religions--in fact possibly monotheism...

Father of the Jewish people. The Book of *Genesis describes how Abraham was promised that he would be the *patriarch of a great nation and his descendants would be as numerous as the stars of the heaven and the sand on the sea-shore. As a result of the...

Viewed in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as the first monotheist. With his wife, Sarah, he was the progenitor of Israel, the community formed by those who abandon idolatry and instead worship the one God. Abraham was called by God to leave his...

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ABRAHAM, or, in Hebrew, Avraham; the ancestor of the Hebrews through the line of Isaac and Jacob and of the Arabs through Ishmael. The ancestors of Israel are portrayed in the Bible as living a nomadic or pastoral life among the older population of...

Abraham (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם, Standard Avraham Tiberian ʾAḇrāhām Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom ; Arabic: ابراهيم, Ibrāhīm ; Ge'ez: አብርሃም, ʾAbrəham) is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Quran whom...

When it comes to Abraham Lincoln, apparently there's no such thing as enough.After countless books about his boyhood, his presidency, the hunt for his killer and yes, even his feet, maybe it was time for a new book devoted to what happened to Lincoln's body...

Nathaniel Abraham, who lost his freedom as a child, is gaining it as a man. A judge released Abraham from all state supervision on Thursday, more than nine years after the then-11-year-old used a rifle to shoot and kill a man outside a Pontiac convenience...

A convicted murderer who was just 11 when he shot a man with a rifle was released from state supervision Thursday, a day before his 21st birthday.Nathaniel Abraham was the first person charged with murder to be prosecuted under a 1997 state law that allowed...

Mayor John Street escalated an exchange of insults with the district attorney, blaming her criticism of his anti-crime leadership on a "little temper tantrum" over budget cuts.Lynne M. Abraham attacked Street in the last week, pleading that he "do something!" to deal with violence that...