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What other depictions of Abraham are there?

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Other Abraham traditions are to be found in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha , especially in the Book of Jubilees. See also Josephus' Jewish Antiquities. Modern biblical scholarship has revealed anachronisms in Genesis that cloud attempts to place chronologically Abraham's historical existence.

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