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There are features of the Genesis story that link Abram (Abraham) to the moon god. Certainly, The Bible itself never credits Abraham with monotheistic beliefs. It was left to a midrash of the Common Era, centuries after the Pentateuch was written, to say that the young Abraham realised that his father's idols had no power and thus perceived that there is but one God.
Genesis 11:31 says that Abram's father, Terah took Abram, and his grandson Lot the son of Haran, from Ur in Chaldea to Haran. We know that Ur and Haran were the two principal cities of the moon god, Sin. It is therefore a very plausible hypothesis that this migration story is a folk memory of the spread of the moon cult from Ur to Haran and then into Canaan.


Other pericopes in Genesis also point Abram and his relatives belonging to a moon cult. His grandson, Jacob, married Leah and Rachel, who arguably both symbolise the goddess of beauty, Venus (or, in Hebrew Asherah). Genesis 32:24ff appears to tell the story of Jacob, as the moon god, fighting the sun god and being defeated at dawn.

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