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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Few figures in the Bible, and indeed the history of Western thought, loom as large as Sarah and Abraham from the Book of Genesis. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice their son Isaac has inspired the ...

Wells, water, history and peace. Seems like as much as the world changes, advances and develops, some things remain intact, remain essential to our future. In the midst of this week’s parasha, Toldot, ...

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 ...