Hagar and Ishmael as Main Characters
A number of scholars say Genesis 16, the story of Hagar and Ishmael, is the center of the Abrahamic narrative (Gen. 12–25). That’s very odd. Hagar appears to be a side character, Sarai’s Egyptian handmaid who bears Abram’s first son, Ishmael. The episode seems tangential to the main plot line. Why should Hagar get a starring role at the heart of the biography of Israel’s founding father?
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