It is important to remember where Abraham came from and where he was headed. He was not an Israelite. There were no such people yet. He came from “Ur of the Chaldeans” (Gen. 15:7). Ur is actually a city of Sumerian origin, a culture even older than the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures we have looked at. The Mesopotamian world from which Abraham came was one whose own stories of origins had been expressed in mythic categories for a considerable length of time. Moreover, the land Abraham was going