A Flemish Baroque painting reanimates Genesis 16–21 and helps us reflect on trust, covenant and the consequences of human shortcuts.

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the ...

War can be understood as a modern, secular form of human sacrifice and a manifestation of sacrificial logic, particularly when viewed through the lens of ritual, symbolism and communal narratives.

When I encounter the word “resurrection,” my mind goes immediately to the three long days and nights our Savior lay bound in death in a cold, dark and borrowed tomb.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Ghosts season 4, episode 16, "St. Hetty's Day." Isaac Higgentoot (Brandon Scott Jones) was a ...

Though Friedman later acknowledges that it was the Mizrachi’s founder, Rabbi Isaac’s pragmatic political ... most notably Abraham Kook and his son, Zvi Yehudah, who carried and spread his ...

Taking the story of Abraham and Isaac, Kierkegaard examined the essence of belief. He contested the Church’s interpretation of this tale, with Abraham as the “father of faith” for his ...

Recently, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, has returned to public discussion. Former MK Tehila Friedman, in a featured Times of Israel blog ...

Genesis 17:11-14 Abraham kept this covenant and his wife, Sarah, gave birth to their son, Isaac. God chose Isaac to inherit the covenant directly from his father, and Isaac handed it on to his own ...