Thirty years ago William L. Holladay wrote in these pages that the narrative of Genesis 12:1–9 was “stripped bare” by its authors in order to tell a simple story: God commands Abram to go, and Abram ...
A number of scholars say Genesis 16, the story of Hagar and Ishmael, is the center of the Abrahamic narrative (Gen. 12–25). That’s very odd. Hagar appears to be a side character, Sarai’s Egyptian ...