Hagar was the part of this reading/lecture that I enjoyed the most. I just find her character interesting aside from the theology that may be linked to her. A lot of the time we don’t think of the slaves or servants of amazing people, like George Washington’s slaves or JFK’s secretary. I may be wrong because sometimes it gets hard to hear on the zoom call, but it’s pretty amazing how much we could talk about her, and her relationship with Sarah and Abraham without even discussing Ishmael fully. I find it interesting how all three of the Abrahamic religions stem from the same family. When you fully think about it, it’s not that surprising since really all humans have a common ancestor if you go far back enough but that’s beside the point. The point is how we see a much stronger, healthier relationship between the Christians and Jews of today, then between the Muslims and either of the former. If we put everything politically and historically aside about the three, there may be a correlation from the exile of Hagar and Ishmael from the bloodline that would end up starting Christianity and Judaism.
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