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The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a root in a single man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the world of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity. In his monumental new reserve, David Rosenberg provides a long-overdue record of the patriarch; while exposing that the original story inserted in the Bible is in fact our oldest historical biography. We also find that the wandering ascetic of custom cannot explain our deep-seated feelings for Abraham and his God. The road that Abraham traveled was proclaimed by indicators of civilization that people still recognize: libraries, museums, hotels, and houses of worship. He is a sophisticated, educated Sumerian; an artisan who became the first Jew. Furthermore, through Rosenberg's audacious translation of the Abraham tale from Genesis, we learn that many of the core tenets of the monotheistic tradition-the idea of God's covenant and the soul-are Sumerian in origins. Rosenberg first confirms Abraham at his father's workshop in the cosmopolitan city of ancient Ur and employs his quest through what is today the Middle East. What kind of baggage-emotional, materials, and spiritual-would Abraham have taken with him on his migration to a fresh land? Abraham will more than present a founding spiritual number and his vibrant relationships with daddy, wife, and boy. We witness this man as he changes his history into an troubled embrace of religious beliefs with secular culture-the human being condition in which we remain enfolded today.