In an act of cowardly favoritism, Abraham surrenders Hagar to the venomous anger of Sarah: “Behold, your maidservant is in your hands. Do to her anything that is pleasing in your eyes.”(16:6).

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 ...

Every year about this time, the story of God testing Abraham comes up. You remember the story: Abraham takes Isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him, and at the last minute a ram enters the picture ...

It is the hardest passage of all, one that seems to defy understanding. Abraham and Sarah have waited years for a child. G-d has promised them repeatedly that they would have many descendants, as ...

Years pass, and God informs Abraham that it’s time to get on with nation building and that he and his wife, Sarah, can start by having their first child, a son to be named Isaac. Abraham falls ...

There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on.

The marriage of Rebecca to Isaac assures the transmission of the Covenant, and supplants one patriarch for another. At the very end of Parshat Chayei Sarah — after the death of Sarah and her ...

Having buried Sarah, Abraham turns to the business of marrying off Isaac who is by now rather ripe in years – a man in his mid 30’s, certainly overdue for a bride.

And the proof of the pudding is that after these stories, God doesn’t speak to Abraham again, nor does Isaac, Ishmael, Hagar and Sarah. He is on his own completely.

Abraham and Sarah are Quivering By DAVID WILDER MARCH 4, 2012 17:37 ... (The largest room, memorializing Isaac and Rebecca is open only to Moslems.) The courtyard is open, ...