According to the Quran, the son involved in the sacrifice however, was Ishmael, not Isaac. Suskin: For Jews, Abraham’s perfect awe for God, demonstrated by his willingness to sacrifice his son ...

Eid al-Adha similarly commemorates the obedience of Abraham and his son to the command of God in fulfilling the sacrifice, as well as the observance of the pilgrimage to the House of God (the Kaaba) ...

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him (Abraham) in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar, the Hittite, facing Mamre.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are Ishmael the biological son of Abraham and Esau the biological grandson of Abraham (Isaac’s biological son) legitimate children of Abraham and part of the Abrahamic covenantal people?

Q:Good God Squad piece this week, Rabbi! I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham and Isaac at my church in Patchogue, N.Y., where I serve as pastor. I love ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...