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 my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

But a few make serious and novel contributions to our understanding of the Bible. Prof. Jonathan Grossman’s most recent English book, Abraham: The Story of a Journey, is one. A talented and ...

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling, in the Bible. It has inspired philosophers like no other. The medieval of course had much to say about Abraham ...