Abraham: His Life and Times by William J. Deane

William J. Deane [1853-1943] provides a detailed study of the life of Abraham and assumes that the biblical account is reliable and accurate. This title is in the public domain.

William J. Deane [1853-1943], Abraham: His Life and Times. London: James Nisbet & Co., n.d. Hbk. pp.179. [Click to visit the download page for this title]

Contents

• Preface
  1. Abram’s Birthplace
  2. First Call
  3. Second Call
  4. The Promised Land
  5. Egypt
  6. Separation
  7. Chedorlaomer
  8. The Covenant
  9. Hagar – Circumcision
  10. Sodom
  11. Gerar and Beersheba
  12. Temptation
  13. Machpaleh
  14. Isaac’s Marriage
  15. Closing years – Death

Preface

The materials for the facts of the life of Abraham are found in Holy Scripture, in the Book of Genesis, and in some of the later writings. I have taken it for granted that these statements are authentic, and have not thought it necessary to follow Ewald and his school in distinguishing the various authors of them, assigning this to” the Book of origins,” and that to the First narrator, and that to the Second, and so on. Nor have 1 esteemed the details thus given as accretions that have grown up round a great central figure in the lapse of centuries, the outcome of hero-worship, the result of a natural desire to accumulate on a great forefather anything that would tend to elevate his personal character ·or exalt the favour with which he was regarded by God…