Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being tested by God. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham ...

Leah gives us priesthood and kingship. Rachel gives us beauty, longing, and redemption. Bilhah and Zilpah — the “secondary” ...

With “trust” in the subtitle, remember that Abraham totally trusts God after a recent covenant between them when God declared: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and ...

One of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shalt not murder.” Are there any exceptions? Can God overrule it? This is what happens in Genesis 22. God tells Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom ...

The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still gets a lot of attention. But it doesn’t get a lot of love. In every broadside against religion, God’s ...

James Goodman's But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac uses a historian's eye to parse what has become over centuries perhaps the most debated 19 lines in the Bible. Here, ...

Today we hear the Genesis account of God’s test of Abraham. Often when we think of Abraham as the man of great faith, we are remembering his leaving everything behind in order to go to the land God ...

In a pivotal biblical story — retold each Rosh Hashana, marking the Jewish new year — God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.

Britten wrote Abraham and Isaac just after the premiere of his opera, Billy Budd, in December 1951. In that masterpiece, the saintly and scapegoated Budd is destroyed by the ruthless Claggart, Master ...