Why I didn’t get fired teaching Bible passages in high school: Paul Keane
The biblical account of ancient rivalries has been crammed by author Herman Melville into those three short opening words of ...
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Isaac the Laughable? On this week’s parsha Hayyei Sarah
Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...
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Abrahamic Faiths: Unity or Division?
The differing narratives of Abraham’s life—particularly the stories of Isaac and Ishmael—highlight deep-seated theological divides that challenge the notion of a unified “Abrahamic ...