Finally, when Abraham dies, Isaac and Ishmael return to bury him. It is clear that while Ishmael and Isaac end up very different people, they bear one another no ill will.

Suskin: Perhaps one reason God insisted that Abraham tell Hagar to leave was to prevent future generations from being poisoned by the antagonistic relationship of their parents’ generation.Instead, ...

Grappling with Abraham, Isaac and faith. By James Goodman . Sept. 6, 2013 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... Islamic exegetes made Ishmael the nearly sacrificed son.

If Abraham believed that Ishmael would survive the desert, he would believe that Isaac would survive Mt. Moriah. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, his least loved son, left God no ...

Yet from a traditional Jewish perspective, Islam does not constitute a new covenant equal to the Torah’s. Like Ishmael — a son of Abraham but not the child of Sarah — Islam is connected to Abrahamic ...

The universal assumption is that the son referred to here is Ishmael. I respectfully disagree and maintain that the son about whom he is worried is in fact Isaac. The reasons are both textual and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Concluding Parashat Chayyei Sarah, the Torah records six sons whom Abraham begat in addition to Isaac and Ishmael – Zimran, Yokshan, Medan, Midian, Yishbak, and Shuach – born to his wife ...

When Abraham was 99 years old and Ishmael was 13, God promised him and Sarah that she would bear them a son within a year. The problem was that Sarah was 89 years old, had always been barren and ...

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 ...

Born to Hagar the Egyptian, Ishmael is banished by Sarah, who demands of Abraham: “Drive out this slave-woman and her son, for the son of this slave-woman shall not share inheritance with my son ...

The firstborn son of Abraham, Ishmael is arguably the star of the Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. That reading, Genesis 21, begins with Isaac’s birth to Abraham and Sarah.