The urge to travel is in Abraham’s genes. According to Genesis 11, his father, Terah, uprooted the family from the southern Mesopotamian town of Ur and headed north to Haran. He intended to lead the ...

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That’s where Genesis picks up the trail of Abram, wife Sarai and some of their family. Written materials that never made it into the Christian canon give you some fantastic tales about Abram rejecting ...