Where does the Jew begin in the Bible?
The Jew begins when God sovereignly separated Abram out of his family in Ur of the Chaldees. Although Abraham is called the father of the Jewish people, the first actual Jew, technically speaking, would be his son Isaac, born through Abraham's wife taken from Ur.
Les teaches that the Jew begins when God separated Abram out of his family in Ur of the Chaldees. The Gentile stream is the mainstream of humanity coming from Adam, through the three sons of Noah, and through the nations scattered at the tower of Babel. Out of that stream of humanity, God pulled the little nation of Israel by separating the man Abraham. Abraham was not a Jew; he was born of Syrian parents, and Rebekah and Laban were Syrian. Yet by God's decree and work of sovereignty, Abram is declared the father of the Jewish race. Les explains that if you want to be real technical, the first real Jew would be Isaac, Abraham's son by the wife he took from Ur, a half sister; nevertheless God refers to Abraham as the father of the Jewish people.