2007-08-03 08:45:08 · 16 answers · asked by spaced out muppet 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ahh okay now I get it...then they come from same father...Abraham who was a Hebrew.
2007-08-03 08:59:09 · update #1
Nope, it is all children of Abraham.
2007-08-03 08:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, we're "kin," but that doesn't mean that Arabs are the descendants of an Illegitimate child of a Jew. Some hold Arabs to be the descendants of Ishmael, who was a legitimate/recognized son of Abraham (by his concubine Hagar.) Jews are descendants of Isaac (another legitimate son of Abraham by his wife Sarah) and Jacob (Isaac's son).
Abraham technically isn't "Jewish" since the Jewish people started with Jacob/Israel.
Regardless, Arabic and Hebrew come from the same Semitic language family.
2007-08-03 15:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by Cathy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The Biblical Abraham had an affair with a female servant with the blessing of his wife Sarah becuase Sarah could not have children. From that union came Ishmael, whom Muslims understand Arabs came from. Sarah was then given the ability to conceive and bore Isaac, through which Jews trace their line.
2007-08-03 15:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Arabs came from Kedar the second son of Ishmael, the son of Abraham. While the Jews came from Judah, the son of Jacob, from the lineage of Isaac, the son of Abraham.
Therefore Jews and Arabs are blood cousins. Their language are related and even their physical features are the same.
2007-08-03 16:03:04 · answer #4 · answered by space lover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course. that's why people argue over the word 'anti-semitic' - some say it should include Arabs, not just Jews. All children of Abraham.
2007-08-03 15:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by rebecca v d liep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the story of Abraham in the old testament of the Christian bible, or the Pentateuch of the torah, or the Qu'ran (i'm sorry but i do not know the precise term)
tells that the kingdom of God will be realized through the decedents of Abraham.
The Jewish (and Christian) believe that this is realized through Isaac (Abraham's second born, through his wife Sarah). Islam believes that this is through his firstborn son Ishmael (through a relation with Sarah's maid servant)
therein lies the crux of the animosity...
2007-08-03 15:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by p.diggity 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Jews and Arabs are brothers.
2007-08-03 15:48:19 · answer #7 · answered by gnostic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Abram/Abraham wasn't nor could he have ever been a Jew, since Judah hadn't been born nor had any children; just goes to show ya! Ole Abe was a Hebrew or Habiru! Google it!
2007-08-03 15:50:18 · answer #8 · answered by OBI 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
jews did not exist back then. Arabs related as much to jews as to anybody else
2007-08-03 15:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by ZYABZIK 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be reading a editorial dated back to the Crusades.
2007-08-03 15:47:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋