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Abrahamic

[ ey-bruh-ham-ik ]

adjective

  1. being or relating to any of the religions in which Abraham is revered as the first of the patriarchs:

    The Druze faith is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion incorporating Islamic, Jewish, and Christian teachings as well as those of Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.

  2. relating to Abraham:

    Our Biblical Theology class spent three sessions discussing the Abrahamic covenant.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Abrahamic1

First recorded in 1690–1700; Abraham ( def ) + -ic ( def )
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“Now there is evidence that all the Abrahamic faiths – namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as their later incarnations such as Mormonism – descend from a ten to twelve thousand-year-old cult centered around red fly agaric,” Vishnevsky explained.

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But in any case, very few women seek the absolute power that the male writers and scholars of the Abrahamic religious traditions arrogated for themselves.

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Obama seemed to want to weave back into America’s civic-republican fabric some tough old threads of Abrahamic, covenantal faith.

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The King spoke of the universal values of respecting others in the "Abrahamic family of religions", which includes Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

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Unlike other Abrahamic faiths, Judaism traditionally puts little value on martyrdom.

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