Article Title

Drought in the Time of Abraham

Authors

John A. Tvedtnes

Keywords

Old Testament Studies, famine, ancient Mesopotamia, Genesis 12:10, Abraham 1, Abraham 4-5 Abraham 15-17

Abstract

Recent evidence of a three-hundred-year drought in ancient Mesopotamia is consistent with references in the Bible and in the book of Abraham to famine during Abraham's time (see Genesis 12:10; Abraham 1:29-30; 2:1, 4-5, 15-17).

Recommended Citation

Tvedtnes, John A. (1998) "Drought in the Time of Abraham," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 18: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol18/iss2/3