On Sunday, the Book of Hebrews told Catholics that Abraham trusted and obeyed God regarding leaving his home, bearing children and sacrificing Isaac. As described in Hebrews, “By faith Abraham obeyed ...

Most people in the world have learned of Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), who Jews regard as the first Jew, not by reading a book of Jewish history, but by listening to and reading from the ...

The differences between Abraham and Lot chart the future - In this week’s Torah portion God tells Abraham to go and each generation of our people is taken along on his journey. To understand the ...

In some circles, literary readings of the Bible are seen as controversial, but good literary analysis can enhance the Bible’s message about God and human beings. People worry about the demise of the ...

Abraham is regarded by Jews as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people. This article examines his life, times and significance. The history of the Jewish people begins in Bronze Age times in the ...

Years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land and spend some time in conversation with one of the auxiliary bishops of the Latin Patriarchate. In the conversation, the bishop noted that ...

A thought experiment: if they had asked me to edit the Bible (whoever “they” might be—perhaps the Holy Spirit, or the heavenly Council on Divinely Inspired Works) . . . if they had made me the ...

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In Genesis chapter four, Abram brings a tithe or a tenth to Melchizedek of all of the goods he had taken from the King of Sodom. Abram did not take any of the spoils for himself because he did not ...

This article looks at the covenant between God and the Jewish people; a thread running throughout the early parts of the Bible and one of the vital pillars of Judaism. The covenant between God and the ...