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 ...

Muslims believe that as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, an angel of God stopped him and gave him a ram to sacrifice ...

autonomous person,” there’s still something of the old Abraham, say, when he’s bargaining with God about saving Sodom if ...

GRANDCHILD BONDIn the 1930s, the Soviets tried to eliminate the seven-day week entirely — first replacing it with a four-day ...

So in a mythic kind of way we can say that Abraham recognizes God and that Abraham launches the process—biological and social and cultural—that will culminate in the people of Israel ...

God gave human beings freedom ... Despite the fact that Lot chose to live where he did with its attendant risks, Abraham does not say, “His safety is his responsibility, not mine.” ...

Abraham was now able to envision God in a new way because he himself had ... “A suffering person should not say: ‘That’s bad. That’s bad.’ Nothing God imposes on a human is bad.