Contents

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVE

Ed Noort, Abraham and the Nations

Ed Noort, Created in the Image of the Son

Jan N. Bremmer, Spartans and Jews

Pieter W. van der Horst, Did the Gentiles know who Abraham Was?

Mladen Popovic, Abraham and the Nations in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten, Abraham and the Nations in the Book of Jubilees

Jacques T.A.G.M. van Ruiten, Hagar in the Book of Jubilees

Phoebe Makiello, Abraham and the Nations in the Works of Philo of Alexandria

Abraham P. Bos, Hagar and the Enkyklios Paideia in Philo of Alexandria

Martin Goodman, Josephus on Abraham and the Nations

Birgit van der Lans, Hagar, Ishmael, and Abraham's Household in Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae

Moshe Lavee, Converting the Missionary Image of Abraham

Joanna Weinberg, Abraham, Exile, and Midrashic Tradition

Ronit Nikolsky, Ishmael Sacrificed Grasshoppers

Florentino García Martínez, Hagar in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

Wout van Bekkum, Many Nations and One God

NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Karin B. Neutel, “Neither Jew Nor Greek”

Birgit van der Lans, Belonging to Abraham’s Kin

George H. van Kooten, Broadening the New Perspective on Paul

Albert L.A. Hogeterp, Hagar and Paul’s Covenant Thought

George H. van Kooten, Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics

Bas van Os, Children of the Slavewoman

Lautaro Roig Lanzilotta, “Come out of Your Country and Your Kinsfolk”

Anthony Hilhorst, Ishmaelites, Hagarenes, Saracens

Johan Leemans, After Philo and Paul

Augustine Casiday, The Call of God and the Response of Abraham

W.J. Aerts, Hagar in the So-Called Daniel-Diegesis and in Other Byzantine Writings

ISLAM

Gerald Hawting, The Religion of Abraham and Islam

Fred Leemhuis, Hajar in the Qu’ran and Its Early Commentaries

Martin Goodman, Epilogue

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects

Index of Ancient Texts