Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish interpretation of Abraham and God's covenant promise.

Abraham, you’re going to be a daddy! What incredible news. Abraham was 99 years old and Sarah was 10 years younger. But — God’s words are always in season.

At the beginning of this parsha, Abraham sees three people, and although he is still recovering from the physical covenant ...

Paul didn’t have a brain virus, nor did he teach a nationalistic fantasy — he articulated divine revelation. God’s covenant ...

Nine generations separated Shem, the son of Noah, from Abraham. That is a long time and during the more than four centuries, civilization was growing. Following God’s scattering the people, ...

Remarkably however, the previous chapter gives us a quite different perspective: ...

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 ...

According to the years of the generations following Noah, it was 292 years from the great flood to the birth of Abraham.

I wonder how you understand the bible, bashing the ambassador is bashing God. You are just kicking your leg against the prick ...

I wonder how you understand the bible, bashing the ambassador is bashing God. You are just kicking your leg against the prick ...

I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”  At first glance, the rainbow is just a natural phenomenon — a refraction of light through ...

All the noble traits that appeared in Avraham our father, and all the good deeds that he performed throughout his life, have ...