Word: abrahamisms
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Louis X feared, however, that the American government "would not want us to go" even though resettlement of Negroes in Africa was proposed by Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay, and Stephen Douglas. "The government is luring the Negro by the hypocritical trick of integration," he declared...
Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Arguments for: a moderate, a Jew, a proven vote getter in bellwether Connecticut. Arguments against: religion, a lackluster record as Kennedy's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...were lacking, as they generally were, only vague guesses, based on general appearance, could set the age of the find. Glueck was the first to determine that the fort was built in the reign of a specific king of Judah, or that the tell, dated from the age of Abraham, perhaps 1,300 years earlier. All that he needed was a look at the potsherds; sometimes he could identify them from the altitude of a camel back...
Once more the Old Testament backed him up. Careful reading of the Book of Genesis shows that Abraham and the other Hebrew patriarchs were not real Bedouins. For one thing, camels...
...this was the way that Abraham lived, and the historical memory of the Bible says that it was, the patriarch must have found well-populated country in the Negev all the way to Egypt. He traveled there on foot without difficulty. What happened to those inhabitants of the ancient Negev? asked Glueck. He suspected that invaders periodically wiped them out or pushed them back into nomadism, just as in Transjordan...