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

During the Jewish new year holy day of Rosh HaShanah, Synagogues throughout the world read the Torah chapters of Genesis 21 and 22; the narrations of Abraham, the Hebrew’s (Genesis 14:13) two ...

Pieter Jozef Verhaghen, “Abraham Drives Off Hagar and Ishmael,” 1781, Royal Fine Arts Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (photo: Public Domain) John Grondelski Blogs March 23, 2025 ( Reading: Genesis 16 ...

Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, became corrupted and began, at the age of fifteen, to worship idols like the Canaanites around him. When his brother Isaac was born, Ishmael would shoot arrows at ...

And the proof of the pudding is that after these stories, God doesn’t speak to Abraham again, nor does Isaac, Ishmael, Hagar and Sarah. He is on his own completely.

'Sarah Complaining of Hagar to Abraham,' by Rembrandt, c. 1643-44. Each episode in the patriarchal narratives of Genesis is a beautifully crafted interweaving of personal and national concerns.

Keturah, one of Abraham’s three wives, with her children (right); Sarah and Isaac are in the center, Hagar and Ishmael are on the left. From the Venice Haggadah of 1609. Courtesy of Wikimedia ...

God’s command to send away Hagar, against Abraham’s preference. 9. The expulsion of Ishmael 10. ... Abraham always treated Ishmael as a full son, and a potential heir.