Abraham's House

Abraham's House was the name once given to a ruined structure at Ramet-el-Khulil near Hebron. It was identified as the spot where the Biblical character Abraham pitched his tent beneath the oak (sometimes identified as a terebinth) of Mamre. This oak was for centuries venerated as an object of worship, until Constantine supposedly put a stop to this practice by erecting a basilica.

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Wheeler, William A. and Charles G. Wheeler "Familiar Allusions A Handbook of Miscellaneous Information" Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1881. Print.

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