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 ...

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ‘Muslim’ Hebrew, ...

His blessing is not, however, merely his: he knows that, as son of Abraham, he is also passing down the Lord’s blessing of the covenant. While Esau is in the fields Jacob — with his mother’s ...

Much later in the story, a dying Jacob confers his blessings on the next generation. And among his final wishes is that his body be carried back to Israel for burial in the tomb of Abraham and ...

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...