[lit-ideas] Re: Moby Dick and America
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:36:19 -0800 (PST)
--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Moby Dick and America
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 9:13 PM
>>Ishmael was half Arab. Abraham was his father, Hagar his mother. One
Jew, one Arab. He is important in both traditions so it makes the Arab/Israeli
conflict even sadder.
In the story, Hagar was an Egyptian slave, not an Arab per se. *The story is a
bit more complicated. According to both Jewish and Arab sources, she was of
royal blood:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagar_(Bible)However, the
parallelism of Isaac and Ishmael, both of whom received God's blessing in
Genesis, is seen as an ethnographic myth.*Seen by whom ? O.K.
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