Abraham's greatness in Jewish reading is not belief but movement: he is told to go, and he goes. The tradition adds the story of him smashing his father's idols — not in the Bible, a midrash — to explain why he was chosen, and it also preserves him arguing God down over Sodom, which establishes that covenant includes the right to protest. He is called our father by Jews, honored as the first Muslim in submission by Islam, and cited by Paul as the model of faith before law; three traditions read the same man differently.