The Abraham volume appeared in Hebrew in 2014, the first in a series of three books about significant characters in Genesis. (The others were about Jacob and Joseph.) In an average Hebrew Bible ...

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 ...

I taught a Bible Study on the book of Genesis. I did a survey of some of my favorite stories from that book--from any book.

In the Hebrew Bible, Prophet Abraham is the first person to be called a “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13). The term Hebrew comes from the verb ‘to go over a boundary’— like the Euphrates or ...

In the Hebrew Bible, Abraham is the first person to be called a Prophet (Genesis 20:7); and the first to be described as a “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13). The term Hebrew comes from the verb ...

Where does this idea come from? As you mentioned, the Bible says that Abraham is circumcised. Cohen: Yes. Genesis 17 is the chapter that spells out, repeatedly, that circumcision is the sign of ...