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 ...

The Torah focuses on Isaac’s life more than Ishmael’s so it is not unexpected that Genesis 22 is all about Abraham and Isaac. The Qur’an hints at a solution to the question of the son’s name.