That is the sense of “There was a famine in the land.” so Abraham and Sarah had to leave the Land of Israel for Egypt, where Sarah would be endangered. The third trial was when Sarah was ...

Abraham and Sarah will have a son. Once again, as was in the case of Noah, God brands the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah as “great” and “so grievous.” It’s then that Abraham bargains with God ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice ... and blood of his blood with his beloved Sarah. Here is the child they longed for until ...

By human logic, that was incredible. But Abraham gave it credence. Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on the how by having a boy ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call. Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan ...

I spoke with Julius about the two Abrahams, Sarah’s connections to suffragette thinkers and why more of us should follow the example of Abraham 1. The following conversation has been edited for ...

When songwriters Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada signed on to write an original song for Sing Sing, the duo was captivated by the film’s intensity and genuine approach to the story.

Sarah died in Kiriath-arba — now Hebron — in the land of Canaan; and Abraham proceeded to mourn for Sarah and to bewail her. Then Abraham rose from beside his dead, and spoke to the Hittites ...

(Isaiah 41:8) Because Abraham introduced his friends to the imageless, formless One. His friends joined Sarah and Abraham in prayer each and every new moon. When Abraham and Sarah left Haran to go ...

For it was Sarah who gave Hagar, her maid-servant, to Abraham, in the hope that they would have a child, a child that would be theirs just like all of Jacob’s sons, whether they were from Rachel ...