Episode 147 - Sarah : More Important than Abraham

Episode Summary

Though people talk these days about the “Abrahamic Religions,” referring to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in the biblical story Sarah is as important as Abraham. In fact, arguably she is more important.

This is because Abraham had many children to different wives (think of Hagar and Keturah), but the “child of promise” from whom Israe would derive came only through Sarah. She is the subject of conversations between Abraham and various kings, and between Abraham and God. The latter famously told Abraham in no uncertain terms that his progeny and the future of God’s elect people would be related to Sarah and to no other wife of Abraham.

She has a few speaking parts: (1) when she tells Abraham to sleep with Hagar and then gets upset; (2) when she denies having laughed at the announcement that she would soon conceive and bear a child; (3) and when she orders Abraham to dismiss Hagar and Ishmael right after she saw Ishmael playing after Isaac’s birth.

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