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Historical person
Traditional chronology: c. 20th–18th century BCE
Abraham is the patriarch in Genesis who leaves Mesopotamia for Canaan in response to a divine call and becomes the bearer of a covenantal promise.
The person is linked because Angela Hunt portrays this figure under a biblical or historical identity. Private speech, emotional motives and undocumented relationships in the novel are imaginative reconstruction; for biblical figures, chronology and the degree of independent historical corroboration may remain uncertain.
Series
The Matriarchs reimagines the Genesis stories of Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel from the women’s perspectives. The novels follow arranged marriages, migration, infertility, motherhood and rivalry within the households through which the biblical covenant is transmitted from Abraham and Isaac to Jacob’s children. Faith is the organising force…
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