Yahweh appeared to Abraham hear the oaks of
Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent, in the heat of the day, when he looked up and saw three men standing nearby.
The prevalence of primary angle closure glaucoma and open angle glaucoma in
Mamre, Western Cape, South Africa.
But job opportunities in her home town of
Mamre, a community living about 30 kilometres north of the City of Cape Town, were few and far between.
Further, he built new structures at David's tomb and at the Abrahamic sites of Hebron and
Mamre, in order to connect himself with the Jewish past.
This week, in Chapter 10, the rabbis dealt with the complementary case of a "rebellious elder," zaken
mamre; but in this case, it was interesting to see, they make no such effort at extenuation.
The Qur'an uses the story of Abraham's treatment of his guests at
Mamre --as does the Hebrew Bible--to show virtue of hospitality:
(249) Maimonides, Introduction, Mishnah Torah (translation by Mechon
Mamre, 2008), available at http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/e0000.htm.
This is why the traditional icon of God as Trinity is a depiction of the three strangers--or foreigners--in the form of angels received by Abraham under the oak of
Mamre, as described in Genesis, chapter 18.
In the Moment adduces biblical anatheist moments: Abraham under the
Mamre Tree, Mary at the instant of Annunciation, Muhammad in the cave on Mount Hira make visible religious responses to the advent of alterity in the midst of the human by waging war or peace, by caring or hating.