Abraham came from Urfa near Haran. He was a Canaanite.
Ugarit, ancient city lying in a large artificial mound called Ras Shamra, 6 miles (10 km) north of Latakia on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria. Its golden age occurred about 1450 to 1200 BCE and produced texts in a cuneiform alphabetic script. Excavation of its ruins began in 1929.
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Again........someone attempting to choke on a gnat while attempting to swallow a camel. Its "moot".....the nationality of father Abraham, God has no respect of person. What? Are you attempting to promote an ideology (in place of simple truth) that might favor the false doctrine found in the Koran?
There was no nation of Israel nor a covenant known as the "LAW"........in Abraham's lifetime. Everyone was "Gentile" because the term simply means NATION and Israel used the term to indicate all nations other than Biblical Israel (which did not come into existence until 600 years after Abraham was first circumcised in making this practice a seal of righteouness toward the living God). Its all about faith, respect and righteous servitude toward the Living God of Creation.
"Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. How then was it accounted? While he was he was circumcised, or uncircumcised?
Not while he was circumcised but while uncircumcised. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FATHER OF ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE THOUGH THEY ARE UNCIRCUMCISED, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also........(all those who believe, not for any one nationality) -- Romans 4:9-11
As stated previously the word "gentile" means nation and "Israelite" refers to the people of Biblical Israel. Its clear the people of Biblical Israel saw Abraham as their founding father. "Abraham is our father.....Jesus said to them......." -- John 8:39
This belief that Abrahm was the father of the Jews (Israel) stims from the promises made to Abraham by God....which were passed down to Issac, and then to Jacob who was also known as "ISRAEL". But the "LAW" .....a covenant between God and Israel did not come into effect for hundreds of years (about 600 yrs. after Abraham).......when Moses brought the people out of captivity.
The nation of Israel divided under "Rehoboam" (the first ruler). The 10 northern tribes remained known as Israel.....while the southern kingdom became known as "Judah".........by the time of the "captivity" the people were simply known as JEWS (1 Kings 25:25, Ezra 4:12)
Even though all the Israelites were released from captivity by the "Medo-Persians" the name Jews stuck with all the people, and thus all Israel were known as Jews in Jesus' lifetime.
Its true that Abraham was not an "Israelite" because that came through his grandson.........He definitely was not a Jew because that name came through his great grandson. Abraham did enter into a covenant with the God of Creation (known as the Abrahamic covenant).........that covenant eventually lead to the founding of Biblical Israel and the Jewish nation.
The entire point? Why reference Paul? There was not a greater knowledge of the history of the Jewish people than was held by the scholar Saul......what Paul is proving is the fact that Circumcism does not have to be of the flesh in order to find God's righteousness, there is a circumcision of the heart (holding true of the Spiritual Kingdom that Christ Created with His birth, life, death and resurrection). The righteous laws of God must be written on the heart of the believer not on stone as prophesied (Jer. 31:31-34)
Those who attempt to use linage to cause a division among those that have been called out from the world have their own reward, there is no one great nation, for today there is neither Jew nor Gentile, all are one when baptized into Christ and joint heirs to the promise made to father Abraham (Gal. 3:28-29)
Lineage mean nothing to God. ".........and do not think to say to yourself, "We have Abrahman as our father." For I say to you that God is able, from these stones, to raise up sons of Abraham." -- Matthew 3:9