英语词汇ishmael的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ishmael
词源	Ishmael. An Ishmael is an outcast, which is one reason why Herman Melville gave the name to his narrator in Moby Dick. Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar; he and his mother were banished to the wilderness by Sarah, where an angel pre- dicted that he would forever be at odds with society (Gen. 21:9–21). The Muslims, however, do not share this biblical tra- dition, considering Ishmael their progenitor.
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