Abraham was one of the sages (1)

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Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae 1.158:
Berossus records our father Abraham. He does not mention him by name but reports the following. After the Great Flood, in the tenth generation, among the Chaldeans there was a man, great, just, and all-knowing about the heavens.

Eupolemus fragment in Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.17:
He says moreover that in the tenth generation in the city Camarina of Babylonia, which some call the city Urie, and which signifies a city of the Chaldeans, the thirteenth in descent lived Abraham, of a noble race, and superior to all others in wisdom; of whom they relate that he was the inventor of astrology and the Chaldean magic, and that on account of his eminent piety he was esteemed by God. It is further said, that under the directions of God he removed and lived in Phoenicia, and there taught the Phoenicians the motions of the sun and moon and all other things; for which reason he was held in great reverence by their King.

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Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae 1.158
Eupolemus
Eusebius, Praeparatio 9.17

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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