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Genesis Rabbah

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Jewish midrashic collection interpreting Genesis;38:13 narrates Abraham, idols, Nimrod and Haran’s death.

Modern comparison: Jubilees’ idol-house fire and Haran’s death; Genesis Rabbah’s rescue and Haran’s death; Apocalypse’s paternal-house destruction; Qur’anic rescue. No proven chain of borrowing
Modern comparison: Jubilees’ idol-house fire and Haran’s death; Genesis Rabbah’s rescue and Haran’s death; Apocalypse’s paternal-house destruction; Qur’anic rescue. No proven chain of borrowingOriginal explanatory diagram: IL Archive, 2026 · CC0Image source

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The collection’s redaction date does not independently date every tale. Passage38:13 includes a club in the largest idol’s hand, followed by fire, Abraham’s rescue and Haran’s death. This differs from the idol-house fire in JubileesBook of JubileesJewish retelling of Genesis and Exodus framed as angelic teaching to Moses, adding chronology, narratives and interpretation.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. The modern diagram compares fire’s functions; it is not a manuscript image. [5] [14]

References and notes

  1. Hebrew/Aramaic passage and translation: shop, club, Nimrod and Haran. GenesisRabbah38:13; Sefaria official API context0 Return to the text ↑
  2. Selected compilation-dating passages only, not Abraham-scene analysis. MosheSimon-Shoshan, HTR111/3(2018), pp425–450; HistoricalContext and redaction comments Return to the text ↑

Research history

Substantive changes are retained here. Minor copy edits remain in the internal operational log.

  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

    Substantive record update

    Read this revision in its original language (Arabic)

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IL Archive, «Genesis Rabbah», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/genesis-rabbah