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[edit] Keturah / Hagar

In the article it is stated that the Midrash holds that Keturah and Hagar are the same person, far be it from me to challenge that formally since I don't know enough about the subject, but the reference to her children in this article, 'She bears him six sons, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.' seems to contradict her also being Ishmael's mother. Also I was wondering about Hagar and Ishmael as they were sent away after Sarah's request and they eventually settled in the Desert of Paran (according to the article on Hagar here on wikipedia). Even though I read somewhere else that Ishmael had visited his father's burial it would seem that the situation of Hagar being sent away sort of excludes her and Keturah being the same person (and thus Keturah / Hagar marrying Abraham after Sarah's death). If I read several sources of information on Hagar right she was an Egyptian handmaid to Sarah, somewhere else, in the wikipedia article on Abraham, I read: 'Sarah was his half-sister and Keturah was a patrilineal parallel cousin.' Of course Keturah being Abraham's cousin wouldn't make it impossible for her to be from Egypt, but I thought Abraham originated (according to popular tradtion / religious sources) from Ur in present day Iraq and that by going to Caanan he left his family behind. This would then seem odd to me together with her being family from his father's side and also from Egypt. Once again I don't know enough about the subject, that's also why I refrained from editing the main article, but does anybody have an opinion on whether this should affect the content of this article and how???. Mlodewijk 00:58, 24 April 2007 (UTC)