we must look at these two blessings together. Taken together, Isaac was weaving a fascinating interdependence between his two sons which was targeted at assuring that the mission of living a godly ...

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 ...

Isaac is old, blind, and house-and-bed-bound. He tastes his mortality and intends to convey his blessing to his firstborn son. (In truth, Isaac would live many more decades and meet Jacob after ...

As many of us know, Jacob—with the help of his mother, Rebekah—deceives his father, Isaac ... one blessing, Father? Bless me, too, Father!’ And Esau wept aloud…” All children—sons ...