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Resurrecting Abraham: Jews, Christians, & Muslims–Past and Present

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Course Level-Format:   online and f2f
Instructor: Taylor Halverson
Institution: Indiana University

Course Term: Fall
Course Year: 2014

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A 2014 course taught by Taylor Halverson at Indiana University examines the Abraham stories of the Hebrew Bible and the “emergence of Judaism and its use of Abraham to create religious identity” and how Christianity and Islam also look to Abraham as a “guiding figure in religious development.”