A number of scholars say Genesis 16, the story of Hagar and Ishmael, is the center of the Abrahamic narrative (Gen. 12–25). That’s very odd. Hagar appears to be a side character, Sarai’s Egyptian ...
In Genesis 25, after Sarah’s death (Genesis 23) and Isaac’s marriage (Genesis 24), Abraham takes another wife named Keturah, and we learn the names of their descendants, and how they were sent east, ...
We often look at the story of Sarah, Hagar, and their fight over Abraham as a lesson in what not to do. But if there was no Hagar or Ishmael, God’s redemptive story wouldn’t be complete./Image by ...
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