Les récits abrahamiques dans les traditions judaïque et islamique

Abstract

This essay presents a structural analysis of the myth of Abraham. Having examined the transformations that it underwent as it passed from one religious tradition to another (primarily Jewish and Muslim), I argue that the relations around which the myth of the Patriarch is built (circumcision/sacrifice, wife/handmaid, firstborn/inheritance) follow a symmetrical albeit opposite evolution. Judaism and Islam developed their own versions of Abraham's family tree, each one charging its genealogical episodes with positive or negative connotations (ex. Sarah and Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael).