Unfortunately, there's no verse in the children's hymn book about prophets regarding Abraham.

He was a prophet and he's regarded as the source of three of the world's largest religions,

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

It's important, too, to think about Abraham, the individual, his family, and what we can

learn about faith through examining his life.

What does it mean to be a child of Abraham? What legacy did he leave for fellow disciples?

And how do we account for the story of Hagar and Ishmael? We'll discuss that and more in today's episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public

communication specialist of the Maxwell Institute here at Brigham Young University.

Christian Heel is a research fellow at the Institute, and each week we'll be discussing the week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

come follow me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block,

so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's

mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints and their testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus

Christ and engage the world of religious ideas. Today were joined by one of our research assistants,

Julia Evans, who is pursuing a degree in linguistics and is preparing to attend law school.

She has worked at the missionary training center for a year as a Norwegian teacher and then as a training supervisor.

Currently, she's involved in undergraduate research in several areas of linguistics and has strong interest in religion and philosophy.

Welcome, Julia, to abide.

Thank you so much.

And Christian, we have a lot to dive into today.

We're covering Genesis 12 through 17 and the

book of Abraham chapters 1 and 2. What's going on in this section? From our vantage point,

it seems that one major function of Genesis 1 through 11 is to provide the genealogy of Abram.

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