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- 2019
Abraham, our father, the father of all: A perspective from ancient Korean historyKeywords: Abraham,biblical Israel,Genesis,Israel and Judah,Jacob,Korean history,Patriarchal Narrative,The Period of the Three Kingdoms Abstract: This study explicates the function of the Abraham narrative in its current position ahead of Jacob in Genesis by means of a comparison with the Period of the Three Kingdoms in ancient Korean history. After establishing the similarity between the two settings, I demonstrate how ancient Korean monarchic history sheds light on the specific function of the Abraham narrative in providing a narrative space in which Judeans found and expressed their new identity after the fall of northern Israel
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