Meanwhile...back at the Palestinian sheep ranch...Isaac...first-born son of Abraham by his half-sister...Sarah...(Yep...they were a close family)was born...Because of the precedence rules of Big Daddy god...Isaac quickly supplanted Ishmael as Abraham’s heir apparent...

This sudden jostling in the heir apparent was due in no small part to Sarah’s raising holy hell with Abraham about Hagar...Ishmael’s mother...and her less legitimate son... Sarah demanded Abraham to cast her and her son out...

Abraham was at age 100 was not quite up to tolerating the wrath of an enraged female and newly endowed mother...Hagar and Ishmael thus ended up departing the patriarch and began wandering the wilderness of Beer sheba...The Queen of Sheba had alcohol named after her...or she liked being nude in the wilderness...

However...one wonders if perhaps this was just biblical blarney...Had Sarah really conceived by Abimelech!?...keep in mind that Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac did arrive...and a bit past his prime...So the boys did not swim as well as they use too!...Meanwhile status-greedy Sarah...who had failed to bear Abraham a son...was not the type to be immaculately pure!...And there was the small matter of the inbreeding...Her being Abraham’s half sister and all...

After Sarah had died at the ripe old age of 127 years...Abraham took himself another wife...Keturah...who managed to provide the old patriarch with another six sons...one of whom...Jokshan...had three grandsons named...Ashurim...Letushim and Leummim...Assure ‘em...let’s use ‘em and loom ‘em...Abraham...again proving himself the old stud...promptly croaked at the youthful age of 175 years...Way to go stud!...

As it turns out the drama was only just beginning!...Just as Ra was selecting wallpaper and carpet for his new temple in Babylon...the sons and daughters of Big Daddy and the Creator god were building their own empires in Assyria...Asia Minor...India...and the Americas...