I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of ...

Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him. For many people, God’s request to sacrifice Isaac is a stumbling block ... its faith to worship false gods, e.g., the fertility Baals.

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling, in the Bible. It has inspired philosophers like no other. The medieval of course had much to say about Abraham ...

Abraham delivered the ‘unkindest cuts’ to his household (circumcision) and was willing to slaughter his Jewish son on an altar; this is kindness? Isaac hung out with his wicked son Esau ...

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic faiths not only because Abraham was the first monotheist but because he was so famously devoted to God. His obedience was so strong that he was ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one ...