- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Chapter One The Problem of Hellenistic Syria*
- Chapter Two The Phoenician Cities: A Case-Study of Hellenisation*
- Chapter Three Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel*
- Chapter Four The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: Reflections on Martin Hengel's “Judaism and Hellenism”*
- Chapter Five Polybius between Greece and Rome *
- Chapter Six The Greek City in the Roman Period*
- Chapter Seven Reflections on the Trials of Jesus *
- Chapter Eight The Roman Coloniae of the Near East: A Study of Cultural Relations *
- Chapter Nine Latin in the Epigraphy of the Roman Near East *
- Chapter Ten Paul of Samosata, Zenobia, and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture, and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria *
- Chapter eleven Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-Distance Trade by Land*
- Chapter Twelve Looking East from the Classical World: Colonialism, Culture, and Trade from Alexander the Great to Shapur I *
- Chapter Thirteen Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom*
- Chapter Fourteen Hagar, Ishmael, Josephus, And the Origins of Islam*
- Chapter fifteen Ethnic Identity in the Roman Near East, A.D. 325–450: Language, Religion, and Culture*
- Chapter Sixteen Dura-Europos under Parthian Rule*
- Chapter Seventeen The Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora between Paganism and Christianity, A.D. 312–438*
- Chapter Eighteen Christian Emperors, Christian Church, and the Jews of the Diaspora in the Greek East, A.D. 379–450*
- Author's Epilogue: Re-drawing the Map?
- Index
Hagar, Ishmael, Josephus, And the Origins of Islam*
Hagar, Ishmael, Josephus, And the Origins of Islam*
- Chapter:
- (p.351) Chapter Fourteen Hagar, Ishmael, Josephus, And the Origins of Islam*
- Source:
- Rome, the Greek World, and the East
- Author(s):
Fergus Millar
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
This chapter explores the question of the genealogy and religious affiliation of Arabs in Josephus's retelling of the story of Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael in the Antiquities. The legendary common genealogy of the Arabs was supplied from written Jewish tradition by Josephus, who saw in them the descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar, thereby making them legitimate heirs to Jewish monotheism. This conception of a common descent and common source of religious observances between Jews and Arabs was original to Josephus alone.
Keywords: Arabs, Josephus, Abraham, Hagar, Ishmael, Antiquities, Jewish tradition, Jews
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Chapter One The Problem of Hellenistic Syria*
- Chapter Two The Phoenician Cities: A Case-Study of Hellenisation*
- Chapter Three Hellenistic History in a Near Eastern Perspective: The Book of Daniel*
- Chapter Four The Background to the Maccabean Revolution: Reflections on Martin Hengel's “Judaism and Hellenism”*
- Chapter Five Polybius between Greece and Rome *
- Chapter Six The Greek City in the Roman Period*
- Chapter Seven Reflections on the Trials of Jesus *
- Chapter Eight The Roman Coloniae of the Near East: A Study of Cultural Relations *
- Chapter Nine Latin in the Epigraphy of the Roman Near East *
- Chapter Ten Paul of Samosata, Zenobia, and Aurelian: The Church, Local Culture, and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria *
- Chapter eleven Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-Distance Trade by Land*
- Chapter Twelve Looking East from the Classical World: Colonialism, Culture, and Trade from Alexander the Great to Shapur I *
- Chapter Thirteen Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom*
- Chapter Fourteen Hagar, Ishmael, Josephus, And the Origins of Islam*
- Chapter fifteen Ethnic Identity in the Roman Near East, A.D. 325–450: Language, Religion, and Culture*
- Chapter Sixteen Dura-Europos under Parthian Rule*
- Chapter Seventeen The Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora between Paganism and Christianity, A.D. 312–438*
- Chapter Eighteen Christian Emperors, Christian Church, and the Jews of the Diaspora in the Greek East, A.D. 379–450*
- Author's Epilogue: Re-drawing the Map?
- Index
