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Show x-:-x-m-:-x-xx-:-x-m-:-z-:-x-m-:-x-:-x-x-:-3:-:-x-:-xoxox-x-m-:-xox-:-x-:-x-m- Abraham Claimed by Moslems as Brother Besides the Biblical account of Abraham there Is n great deal of apocryphal and rabbinical literature concerning him, a writer In the Cleveland Cleve-land Plain Dealer remarks. He looms very large also In Mohammedan legend, le-gend, where he appears as the most Important of the Biblical personages mentioned In the Koran. Indeed he Is claimed as a Moslem, and Mohammed Moham-med made him the most prominent figure fig-ure of pre-Mohammedan religious history. his-tory. The Jewish Encyclopedia digests di-gests and Interprets all of this material mate-rial In Its article on Ahraham. There are also Tompkins' "Studies In the Time of Abraham" and W. J. Deaue's "Abraham: His Life and Times." There is a similarly large body of legend and ancient literature concerning concern-ing Solomon and the queen of Sheha. The Jewish Encyclopedia deals with this also. The Abysslnlans as a people peo-ple do not claim to be descended from the royal pair, but their tradition Is that their reigning family's ancestry may be traced directly to Solomon and the queen. |