Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Transliteration from Hebrew xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction . Who Was (and Is) Abraham? 1
Chapter One . Call and Commission 18
Chapter Two . Frustrations and Fulfillments 36
Chapter Three . The Test 66
Chapter Four . The Rediscovery of God 113
Chapter Five . Torah or Gospel? 139
Chapter Six . One Abraham or Three? 173
Notes 215
Index of Primary Sources 235
Index of Modern Authors 243

How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own images
Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly conventional notion of the three equally "Abrahamic" religions derives from a dangerous misunderstanding of key biblical and Qur'anic texts, fails to do full justice to any of the traditions, and is often biased against Judaism in subtle and pernicious ways.

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His many books include Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and Creation and the Persistence of Evil (Princeton).