Tribe Of Desert Nomads

The Hebrew sacred writings speak of Abraham, initially a tribal elder (so states Josephine Kamm), as the founder of the Hebrew national identity following his communication with God, which reportedly reached a climax when God ordered the sacrifice of Abraham's son, Isaac, after which He demonstrated His mercy by sparing Isaac's life as a result of Abraham's obedience to any celestial dictum, no matter how extreme. The story of Abraham and Isaac relates a fundamental religious conviction of the capacity of a single supreme force to determine the correctness of action and the necessity of mere mortals to demonstrate their appreciation and devotion to this force's chosen courses of action, for they will, according to the Hebrew writings, benefit

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