Abraham's story begins when God tells him to go forth for himself to the land that God will shown him, and he goes. To me, the most enigmatic and interesting character in the Bible is neither Moses ...

The Biblical patriarch Abraham anchors the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faith around a single prehistoric figurehead. According to the Hebrew Bible, Abraham was a Bronze Age nomad who secured a ...

In some circles, literary readings of the Bible are seen as controversial, but good literary analysis can enhance the Bible’s message about God and human beings. People worry about the demise of the ...

Two of the world's biggest religions - Christianity and Islam - can find their roots in the person of Abraham, the patriarch of the Jewish faith. According to the Bible, Abraham was a nomad in the ...

Most people in the world have learned of Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), who Jews regard as the first Jew, not by reading a book of Jewish history, but by listening to and reading from the ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before, it might also ...

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Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel's senior analyst. NEW YORK — When he first came to believe he had discovered how the Biblical forefather Isaac died, Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh says he went ...