The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day ...

Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan,” 1614, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (photo: Public Domain) Biblical scholars often divide the Book of Genesis into two parts ...

It is a patchwork. Abraham’s sons Ishmael and Isaac go on to inherit key promises (as herders). This breaks down as follows: Isaac’s portion is the “Land of Canaan”, and Ishmael’s ...

When Abraham and Sarah left Haran to go to the Land of Canaan, most of their friends joined them on their journey. When Jacob’s twelve sons married, most of them married the descendants of ...

As a side note, however, I first wish to mention the opinion of my grandfather Avi who believes that the source of Abraham’s concern that Isaac should not leave Canaan may be found in the Brit ...

11:27 tells us about the “generations of Terah,” but that the Torah never mentions “the generations of Abraham.” I am wondering whether the failure of Terah to reach the land of Canaan ...

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and Muslims in the center of their maps. God willing, someday everyone may see both cities and their sanctuaries as central to our monotheistic connections to the One God of Prophets Abraham ...

It is a nation that was formed in the days of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as they went from the Fertile Crescent to the land of Canaan, then to Egypt, and back to Canaan until they became the people ...

He does this, mind you, on his own — in the biblical account Abraham takes his family from Ur to head to Canaan before he talks to G-d. THE JEWISH world is in tension, not just from the obvious ...