Patriarchs
“The three ancient patriarchs who laid the foundations of Israel have been described as the historic cornerstones of humanity...Abraham, not Moses, was the founder of Israel's monotheism; hence, in biblical and post-biblical literature, God is frequently referred to as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and nowhere as the God of Moses.”1
1 Philip. Birnbaum, Encyclopedia of Jewish Concepts (New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1979), 4.