In conversation with Cliff Sekowe, Jon Levenson discusses how Jews, Christians, and Muslims understand the biblical figure of Abraham, as well as what, if anything, modern academic scholarship can tell us about his life. Levenson addresses the idea of the covenant, the relationship between universalism and particularism in the Abraham story, the Binding of Isaac, and the relationship between the sexes as portrayed in Genesis, among much else. (Video, 54 minutes.)
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