Abraham’s world, and the story unfolds that way. Abraham’s god has no name and seems to focus on fertility. He promises Abraham a child. He also promises to give Abraham a land. The promised son shows up miraculously, but the land doesn’t seem to work out. Then this god appears to Moses and promises to deliver Abraham’s descendants, Israel, from bondage in Egypt. Moses politely asks the god’s name. (One should always be polite with a god.) Up to that point, the god had just been called Abraham’s, Isaac’s and Jacob’s god (Ex
