2007-11-16 06:22:59 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep- he was the progenitor of the Jews and the first Jew.
The term Jew is also from his time and not from the time iof Yehudah. this can be seen in Bereishit (Genesis) Chapter 29, where Esau marries a daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and, to emphasise the fact that she has converted to a belief in God by changing here name to YEHUDIT. So as far back as the time of Isaac, the term YEHUDI (the T on the end just changes it to a feminine construct) was commonly applied to those that followed the belief in one God that Abraham had started.
2007-11-18 21:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abram was the progenitor of God's chosen people. His name means 'exalted father.' He was born in 2165 BC.
Later his name was changed to Abraham, meaning 'father of a great number.'
The Lord called Abram to leave his country of Ur of the Chaldeans in order to settle the land of Canaan.
A Jew is someone belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob, and are connected by cultural and religious ties. Since Jacob was Abraham's grandson, Abraham was not a Jew.
2007-11-16 06:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was not born a Jew... God made him the father of The Nation of Israel(all Jews)
2007-11-16 06:26:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
More specifically, Abraham was a Hebrew
Genesis 14:13 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew.......
A Jew is more specific to a descendant of the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah/Judea. It does not appear until the time of Hezekiah, around 750BC
2007-11-16 06:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by Cuchulain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was not a Jew. Judaism was not a belief system at that time. According to the Torah, Abraham was a man who chose to believe in one God at a time when the social standard was something along the lines of Roman or Greek mythology in that multiple gods were worshipped. You can't have Judaism without the Torah, and the Torah didn't exhist yet. In fact it wouldn't exhist in the form it is in today for many many decades.
2007-11-16 06:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by annaelisabeth 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-11-16 16:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
"Jew" comes from the name "Judah", one of Jacob's sons and Abraham's great-grandsons. Judah was the name given to the Southern kingdom just as Israel was the name given to the Northern kingdom when they split in the 9th century BCE.
Abraham was a Chaldean. Remember "Ur of the Chaldees" the land from which the Lord drew Abraham and set his feet on the path of monotheism.
2007-11-16 06:30:28 · answer #7 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Abraham was nether a Christian or a Jew but believed in the oness of God!
2007-11-16 07:22:22 · answer #8 · answered by FeshFash 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-11-16 06:25:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2007-11-16 06:24:49 · answer #10 · answered by JonB 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋