André Parrot
Contributor
LOCATION: Paris, France
Archaeologist. Director of the Louvre, Paris, 1968–72. Member of the Institute of France. Author of Abraham and His Times and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Abraham was the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the biblical book of Genesis, Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he…
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