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In Genesis 12, where Abraham’s life story is first told, we read: “Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land’ ” (v. 7), a promise that was ...
The name of Abraham-the-Hebrew’s grandson, Prophet Jacob, was changed by God to Israel when his descendants were being oppressed in Egypt.
If all Arabs and Jews can live up to the ideal that ‘the descendants of Abraham’s sons should never make war against each other’ is the will of God; we will help fulfill the 2700 year old ...
My first real experience of the patriarch Abraham’s crossover appeal came on the splendid sun-spangled day in June when I took a crosstown cab to arrange my son’s circumcision. Jews have ...
Abraham Lincoln has no direct descendants alive today. Of his four sons he had with Mary Todd Lincoln — Eddie, Willie, and Tad — three died young.
Judaism is a monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and based on the belief that the land of Israel was designated by God as a homeland for his descendants (the Jewish people).
Nine Days with St. Abraham St. Abraham’s memorial is Oct. 9. Due to his great number of descendants, he could be considered a patron saint of families.
The road to paradise or heaven for Abraham's descendants is through living together, not dying together. No solution will last if it's at the expense of either people. New ideas are needed.
Question: If Abraham was commanded to circumcise his descendants on the eighth day, why do Arabs – who claim to descend from Abraham through Yishmael – wait until their children are 13 to ...
Abraham’s descendants will outnumber the stars of heaven (imagine what that looked like to a man in the middle of a desert without light pollution). And Abraham believed him (15:6). But, still, how?