Octateuch, s. XII. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, gr. 746, f. 80r.
Sarah Sarai Hagar Hajar — Research
“The central matter is the story of Hagar, Abraham, and Sarah — the ancestral feuding family of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” (s) “The story is told twice, with variations, in Genesis 16 (J) and 21 (E).” (YBS study guide Genesis 16, 22). “This is an etiological narrative, told from a point at which the Ishmaelites are already a numerous people.” (Robinson, WaPo)
JSTOR SEARCH: https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=hagar&so=rel
1. Hagar, Victim or Villain? Three Sixteenth-Century Views ------ https://www.jstor.org/stable/43722938?searchText=hagar&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dhagar%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ae853f4c64f759777abc29bb45786042b
- how cultural mythologies are appropriated
- intersections of islam, judaism and christianity
- visual history
- race
- name pronunciation
- story meaning - how we interpret it
- Lloyd and Brice. Harran, Anatolian Studies, Vol. 1, 1951, p. 77-111
- Genesis 11:26–32
- Genesis 12:4–5
- Genesis 27:42–43
-
JSB pg 27 (map) / pg 32 (map)
10 generations from Shem to Abram JSB 29, Genesis 11:10-32
Chapters 16 + 22
She abuses (ענה) Hagar, the same word that in J is used for how the Egyptians treat the Israelites (Exod 1:11-12) (Baden tweets)
Hagar receives a promise of progeny as nice as the one that Abraham got. (Notice that SHE gets it, as the single mother, so to speak, whereas none of the matriarchs in the Israelite line gets such a promise - they all go to the fathers.) (Baden tweets)
11 - Abram marries sarai - Ur to Haran
12 - Haran to Canaan - then a famine - then Egypt (sister-wife motif)
13 - then back to Canaan (Lot goes to Sodom)
14 - war?
15 - God promises Abram a son - egyptian enslavement prophecy - Abram’s covenant
16 - Hagar comes on the scene; runs away from Sarai; comes back and gives birth to Ishmael (v 15)
17 - Abram’s name changed to Abraham
- interesting read - come back to this: https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/harran
- burial place of hajar
- https://muslimhands.org.uk/latest/2021/04/story-of-hajar-and-zamzam-well-in-the-quran-and-hadith
- https://www.islamiclandmarks.com/egypt/story-of-hajar
- https://hadithoftheday.com/the-amazing-story-of-hajar-and-how-its-relevant-to-you/
- https://thevcs.org/hagars-exile-and-return#seenseeing
- https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/80277/were-hagar-and-ishmael-sent-away-two-times
- https://academic.oup.com/book/27022/chapter-abstract/196287172?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Die_Bibel_in_Bildern
- https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/12/1107 + https://www.mdpi.com/religions/religions-12-01107/article_deploy/html/images/religions-12-01107-g001.png
- https://store.arabamericanmuseum.org/products/hagar-poems-by-mohja-kahf?variant=1558141960222 + https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ggjkdz
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZG5Lj673ItfWUnbTeuXsxvR5u9gyAcZ/edit - HAJAR HAGAR
- https://civilwarwomen.wp.tulane.edu/essays-3/hagar-in-the-wilderness/
newer finds
- https://www.modernreformation.org/resources/articles/the-god-who-sees-a-look-at-abuse-in-the-narrative-of-hagar
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/marilynne-robinson-reading-genesis-meaning-hagar-excerpt/
- https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/abrahams-second-marriage/
- https://quartomagazine.com/fiction/hagar
- https://www.usnews.com/news/religion/articles/2008/01/25/why-scholars-just-cant-stop-talking-about-sarah-and-hagar
- https://legacy4now.theshalomcenter.org/sites/default/files/TentofAbraham2.pdf
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1994/03/13/404055.html?pageNumber=200 / https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/archives/classical-music-thoughts-about-the-madness-in-abrahams-cave.html
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/11/19/106243721.html?pageNumber=6
- https://www.amazon.com/Formations-Secular-Christianity-Modernity-Cultural/dp/0804747687/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2IKOGYZEUJJN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9sxGyE_8c4kiIgLg25EdbCbNCuOPFWieAAh7hWbAkkc9c9pJUWcoJmB9tw1-LorumPN3hOCYYImsRtPCgWRGNi7fJL9yrBhbUWcxPsNVok2ekNpvjlj65KQF794Ex6w1M8PFR-Yb3rGRBhJE8eJZKbF9LXKJKwybqODfFwLSjwd5Sy4AQnBGijp7J9oQDdP0lVmC5BlhX3WKZE51UNqE7I88dZf1q1p_JmPWeSscntY.6cKIV7xyfTmO-cK_9UxsQTEQmHy3k7uSkQw5z4-mLjw&dib_tag=se&keywords=stories+between+christianity+and+islam+reyhan+durmaz&qid=1716381312&sprefix=stories+between+christianity+and+islam+reyhan+durmaz%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-3
***** https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/16/nyregion/theater-sarah-and-abraham-2-plays-at-once.html - COME BACK TO THIS
- Hagar was the slave mistress of Abraham, just as Sally Hemings was the slave mistress to Thomas Jefferson. (source: https://onbeing.org/blog/michael-eric-dyson-abraham-isaac-and-us-and-hagar-and-ishmael-and-trayvon-and-michael-brown-too/
- “... the 25th chapter of Genesis. Its eighth verse reports Abraham died, ''an old man and full of years.'' The ninth says, ''His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah'' (which Abraham had bought from the Hittites as a grave for his wife, Sarah).
Until Genesis 25:9, Ishmael had not been heard from since Abraham sent him and his mother, Hagar, into the wilderness, where they were taken under God's protection. Yet after Abraham's death, Ishmael returns to mourn with Isaac.
Who buries Abraham? Mr. Rosensaft asked. ''His two eldest sons together. Clearly, there has been a reconciliation that let Isaac and Ishmael pay their respects to their father. There is no record in the text of any hostility.''” (source: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/26/us/a-biblical-call-for-reconciliation-in-the-middle-east.html)
foundation myths and the appropriation of them
knowledge projects - orthodoxy
Appropriation stories - Hajar hijacking A; black women and Hagar; how her name is pronounced; Hajar hijacking Sarah’s status; hijacking blackness from Egypt
A double/triple appropriation - Hajar and Sarai supplant Abraham as the sojourners toward elohist favor.
SvH is a roadside memorial taking place in Haran, Türkiye. The piece explores the appropriation of Hagar in black American theology/cultural mythology.
The site specific installation
foundation myths and the appropriation of them / knowledge projects / In the background is the patriach Abraham, proprietor of the “ancestral feuding family of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” / Hagar’s story is told in two separate places
Theological
Art Historical
Abram Leaves Haran, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld
Pamplona Bible I, 1197. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, f. 11r.
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/12/1107