
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.
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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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