Keturah
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One modern commentator on the Hebrew Bible has called Keturah "the most ignored significant person in the Torah". The medieval Jewish commentator Rashi, and some previous rabbinical commentators, rela
The wives and sons of Abraham, with Keturah standing at the far right with her six sons. From the 1630 Venice Haggadah.
Keturah's wedding; her sons and grandsons
Isaac
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Isaac is the second Hebrew patriarch in Judaism and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Samaritanism, Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and Rastafari. Isaac first appears in
Keturah
…far as it reaches to the Red Sea." Genesis records that Abraham gave gifts to these "sons of his concubines" and sent them to the East, while making Isaac, son of Sarah, his primary heir. Keturah's sons were said to have represented the Arab tribes who lived south and east of Israel (Genesis 25:1–6…
Detail of Isaac from Isaac Blessing Jacob (1637) by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
The Akedah (Binding), mosaic on the floor of Beit Alfa Synagogue
The birth of Esau and Jacob, as painted by Benjamin West
Tomb in the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron