Abraham's story begins when God tells him to go forth for himself to the land that God will shown him, and he goes. To me, the most enigmatic and interesting character in the Bible is neither Moses ...
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 ...
A Bible that once belonged to President Abraham Lincoln resurfaced 150 years after his death, pointing to the faith he clung to at a pivotal moment in American history and when he was growing more ...
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 ...
Two of the world's biggest religions - Christianity and Islam - can find their roots in the person of Abraham, the patriarch of the Jewish faith. According to the Bible, Abraham was a nomad in the ...
The three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - all trace their roots to Abraham, the first patriarch of the Jewish people. Abraham's son Isaac is said to have been the grandfather of ...
Prof. Delaney, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University delivered this speech on 18 April 2002 as part of the Markkula Ethics Center Lecture Series. In it she ...
WASHINGTON — In 1864, Abraham Lincoln made a rare wartime trip out of Washington to visit a charity event in Philadelphia raising money to care for wounded soldiers. He donated 48 copies of the ...