David Rosenberg - Abraham. The First Historical Biography

Abimelech

Abraham

as Abram

age of

as anti-hero

brothers of

building alter to Yahweh

covenant with Yahweh

as cultural vs. religious figure

education in Ur

as go-between for God and man

history of, before biblical authors

as legendary/mythical character

loss of Sumerian origins of

personal god of

praying to God

as prophet

reading to himself

sensibility of

and strangers at oaks of Mamre

strengths and weaknesses of

and study of ancient cultures

teacher of

testing God and the covenant

as survivor

as witness

as Zionist

See also Cosmic theater, of Abraham's God

Adam and Eve. See also Garden of Eden

Adonai

Agga (King)

Ahab (King)

Ai

Akedah

and fear of extinction

See also Isaac, sacrifice of

Akkad

Akkadian language/culture covenants in

Aloneness

Alphabet

Amalekites

Amaziah (King)

Ammon

Amorites

Amos

Amraphel of Sumer (king)

Aner

Angels. See under Yahweh

Anu

Aqhat

Aramaic language

Arioch of Ellasar (king)

Art

Ashteroth-karnaim

Assyria

Baal

Babylon

Babylonia. See also Babylon

Bavel/Babel

Beersheba (Beer-sheva)

Bel

Bela

Ben Ami

Bera of Sodom (king)

Beth El

Bethuel

Birsha of Gomorrah (king)

Bitumen

Book of Job

Boundaries

covenant as boundary See also Knowable vs. unknowable worlds

Bricks

Bronze Age

Buddha

Bullae

Buz

Byblos

Camels

Canaan

Canals

Catholic Eucharist

Chaldeans

Chederlaomer of Elam (king)

Chesed

Christianity

Circumcision

City of David

Colophons

Comedy

Conscience

Contracts

Copies/copying

Cosmic theater

of Abraham's God

of belief in an afterlife

family drama becoming cosmic drama

integrated with daily life

purpose of

as rooted in the land

in writing of P

in writing of X See also under Sumer; Writing

Covenants. See also Abraham, covenant with Yahweh; Contracts

Cultivation of the Date Palm

Culture/religion relationship. See also Abraham, as cultural vs. religious figure

Cuneiform. See also Scribes; Writing

Damascus

Dan

Date palms

David (King)

Dead Sea

Death

and inheritance

personal extinction and personal death

prayers for the dead

Dilmun

Divination

Donkeys

Dreams

awakening from

Dumuzi

E (author)

audience of combined J-E text

historical authenticity of

Eden

Edubba

Education. See also Abraham, education in Ur; under Isaac

Egypt. See also Pharaoh

El

El Elyon

Eliezer

Eliot, T. S

Elohim

El-paran

El Shaddai

Emin

Enheduanna

Enki

Enki and the World Order

Enkidu. See also Epic of Gilgamesh

Enlil

En-mishpat

Enuma Elish

Ephron

Epic of Gilgamesh. See also Gilgamesh (King)

Erech

Eshkol

Eunuchs

Euphrates River

Evil

Evolutionary

Ewes

Excavations,

Excavations at Ur (Woolley)

Existentialism

Exodus

Extinction, issue of

and Akedah

personal death and cultural extinction

See also Death, personal extinction and personal death; Survival

Fame

Famine

Flood. See also Noah; Ziusudra

Gaham

Garden of Eden. See also Adam and Eve

Gender stereotypes

Gerar. See also Abimelech

Germany

Gilgamesh (King)

Gilgamesh epics. See also Epic of Gilgamesh as part god

Gilgamesh and Agga

Gods

as extended families

as higher species of humans

personal gods. See also Abraham, personal god of;

Yahweh, as personal god See also Statues; individual gods

Gomorrah. See Sodom and Gomorrah

Gordis, Robert

Greece (ancient)

Gudea

Hagar

Ham

Hammurapi

Code of Hammurapi

Haran

Harran

Hazazon-tamar

Hazo

Heaven

Hebraic

Hebraic culture

Hebrew (word)

Hebrew, revival of spoken and literary

Hebrew Bible

King James Version and Anchor Bible See also E (author); J (author); P (author); X (author)

Hebron

Herzl, Theodor

Het, sons of

History

Abraham's life as first historical one

and author P

and covenant

forgetting of

historical authenticity of J and E

historical interpretation

Jewish identity and world history

and natural history

new history of Jewish people to embellish J

new way of recording

oral histories

prehistory See also under Sumer

Hittites

Hobah

Holocaust survivors See also Evil Homosexuality

Horites

Humbaba

Idioms. See under Translations

Idol worship. See also Cosmic theater.

Immortality

Impermanence

Inanna

Inanna's Journey to Hell

India

Inheritance. See also under Death

Inspiration, divine/artistic

Intimacy

Sodom's contempt for

Iraq

Isaac

education of

as human embodiment of the covenant

need for disguise

sacrifice of. See also Akedah

Isaiah

Ishmael

Ishtar

Isin

Islam

Islamic scholars Israel. See also Judah.

destruction of northern kingdom of

Itineraries

J (author)

audience of combined J-E text

historical authenticity of

relation to Jerusalem temple

sensibility of

as translator of X

Jacob

Japan

Jebusite culture

Jeremiah

Jeroboam II (King)

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem palace library

Stronghold of Zion in See also J (author), audience of

Jezebel

Jidlaph

Job. See Book of Job

Jordan valley

Joseph

Josiah (King)

Judah

Judaism

Justice. See also Truth and justice

Kadesh

Kadmonites

Kemuel

Kenites and Kenizzites

King of Battle, The

King's Valley

Kirta

Kiryat Arba

Kish

Knowable vs. unknowable worlds

Kulla

Kutscher, Raphael

Laban

Lament(ation) for the Destruction of Ur

Lament for the Destruction of Sumer and Akkad

Larsa

Laws

Letter to a Personal God

Leviticus

Libraries

Lists of kings

Lot

daughters of

wife of

Lugalbanda

Maacah

Machpelah

Magan

Magical thinking

Mamre,

Marduk,

Mari

Marriages

Megiddo

Melchizedek (King),

Mesopotamia,

Middle Ages

Milcah

Moab

Monotheism. See also Cosmic theater of Abraham's God

Moreh

Moriah

Moses

Mountains,

Music

Myth

Nabu

Nachor/Nahor

Nanna

Nanna's River Journey to Nippur

as S'in

Negev

Nindub

Nineveh

Ningal

Nippur. See also Nanna, Nanna's River Journey to Nippur

Nisaba/Nissaba

Noah

Notaries

Oh Angry Sea

Omri (King)

Origins. See also Abraham, loss of Sumerian origins of

Orlinsky, Harry

P (author) and Yahweh's fondness for Abraham

Papyrus scrolls

Paran

Perrizites