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An illustration of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, in the presidential booth at Ford's Theatre. Left to right: assassin John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Harris, and Henry Rathbone. As the American Civil War ended, Mrs. Lincoln expected to continue as the First Lady of a nation at peace ...
Sarah [a] (born Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister [1] of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac.
Keturah (Hebrew: קְטוּרָה, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; [1] Arabic: قطورة) was a wife [2] and a concubine [3] of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. [2]
Alonso de Sandoval, 17th century Jesuit, reasoned that Zipporah and the Cushite woman was the same person, and that she was black. He puts her in a group of what he calls "notable and sainted Ethiopians". [12]: 248, 253–254
Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. [4] Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah. [5]
The name given by the Talmud is not the only one in Jewish tradition. The Book of Jubilees (11:13) names Abraham's mother Edna. Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer names her Atudai. [2] There is probably no tradition going back to Moses about the name of Abraham's mother; her name could be Atudai, Edna, Amathlai, or another totally different one. [2]
Gershon Hepner concludes, through biblical exegesis and semantics, that it is plausible that the union of Abraham and Sarah was actually incestuous with Sarah being Abraham's half-sister. For example, in Genesis 20:13, Abraham, talking to Abimelech, alludes to Leviticus laws or the Holiness code, by using the phrase "loving kindness". The same ...
In Latter-day Saint theology, Egyptus (/ iː ˈ dʒ ɪ p t ʌ s /) is the name of two women in the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. [1] One is the wife of Ham, son of Noah, who bears his children.