Abram fell face down and God said to him: For my part, here is my covenant with you: you are to become the father of a multitude of nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be ...

Honestly, I am always moved when reading passages in which God is quoted, speaking directly to His "chosen people" about who ...

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 ...

Throughout the Scriptures, God introduces himself to his people as the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” His name would be forever associated with the Jewish patriarchs as a reminder that his promise ...

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But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, are the offspring of Abraham, my friend;” ( Isaiah 41:8) So the biological offspring of Prophet Abraham (the Banu Israel) became the first ...

Yesterday, I wrote that God’s warning to Adam and Eve about eating the tree of knowledge—”for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die”—seemed like lax parenting by the Lord, since in fact Adam and Eve ...

Today’s vignette from Genesis depicts Abraham at his most active, doing everything he can to prevent God from destroying the city of Sodom. God must have been thoroughly entertained as Abraham ...

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among American Christians? In the Bible, names matter. They aren’t mere ...