Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a ...

The likeness between the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and his 11th-generation descendant Ralph C. Lincoln is striking. Ralph LincolnA comparison of President Abraham Lincoln and ...

In Genesis 12, where Abraham’s life story is first told, we read: “Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land’ ” (v. 7), a promise that was ...

However, Abraham’s descendants through his son Ishmael (Arabic Isma’il) would be ethnic Arabs —a separate Semitic people— and later the non-national religious Christian and Muslim communities.