<sod>The Abraham story cannot be definitively related to any specific time.{{sfn|McNutt|1999|p=41-42}} A common hypothesis among scholars is that it was composed in the early Persian period (late 6th century BC) as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in [[Yehud Medinata|Judah]] during the [[Babylonian captivity]] and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counter-claim on [[Moses]] and [[the Exodus]] tradition.{{sfn|Ska|2006|p=227-228, 260}} Whatever its origins, scholars are generally agreed that the [[patriarchal age]], along with the [[The Exodus|exodus]] and the period of the judges, is a literary construct.{{sfn|McNutt|1999|p=41-42}}<eod>
<sod>The Abraham story cannot be definitively related to any specific time.{{sfn|McNutt|1999|p=41-42}} A common hypothesis among scholars is that it was composed in the early Persian period (late 6th century BCE) as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in [[Yehud Medinata|Judah]] during the [[Babylonian captivity]] and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counter-claim on [[Moses]] and [[the Exodus]] tradition.{{sfn|Ska|2006|p=227-228, 260}} Whatever its origins, scholars are generally agreed that the [[patriarchal age]], along with the [[The Exodus|exodus]] and the period of the judges, is a literary construct.{{sfn|McNutt|1999|p=41-42}}<eod>