It is the hardest passage of all, one that seems to defy understanding. Abraham and Sarah have waited years for a child. G-d has promised them repeatedly that they would have many descendants, as ...

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

Years pass, and God informs Abraham that it’s time to get on with nation building and that he and his wife, Sarah, can start by having their first child, a son to be named Isaac. Abraham falls ...

There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on.

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.

Abraham and Sarah are Quivering By DAVID WILDER MARCH 4, 2012 17:37 ... (The largest room, memorializing Isaac and Rebecca is open only to Moslems.) The courtyard is open, ...

Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...

Herzog may have thought that lighting the first Hanukka candle in the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob are buried, would be a symbolic act of unity.