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=== Call to the Promised Land === | === Call to the Promised Land === | ||
[[File: | [[File:Molnar Abraham kikoltozese 1850.jpg|thumb|alt=Abraham with his followers and flocks|''Abraham’s Journey from Ur to Canaan'', József Molnár (1850)]] | ||
Genesis tells us that Abraham, his father and his family left Ur to dwell some 600 miles away in Haran, a major commercial center in northwest Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent (where Syria now is). Although the Bible is silent on Abraham’s early years, according to Jewish oral tradition he was fully engaged in a battle to win converts to monotheism and is said to have smashed the idols of his father, Terah, an idol maker who the Book of Joshua says “served other gods.”<ref>Josh. 24:2.</ref> | Genesis tells us that Abraham, his father and his family left Ur to dwell some 600 miles away in Haran, a major commercial center in northwest Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent (where Syria now is). Although the Bible is silent on Abraham’s early years, according to Jewish oral tradition he was fully engaged in a battle to win converts to monotheism and is said to have smashed the idols of his father, Terah, an idol maker who the Book of Joshua says “served other gods.”<ref>Josh. 24:2.</ref> | ||