1:25). At that time, pagan nonbelief was ubiquitous. It had even infected those who descended from Patriarch Abraham. The Lord speaks through Joshua to the Jews: "our fathers dwelt on the other side ...

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the chosen people of God would grow into a mighty nation. God also promised ...

The pilgrimage to Hebron marks the weekly Torah portion Chayei Sarah, in which the Biblical patriarch Abraham buys the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in order to bury his dead wife Sarah.

The latter history begins with the patriarch Abram (Abraham). Judaism, Christianity and Islam all acknowledge Abraham as “the man of faith” and claim him as their own. It’s why, for example ...

In the new biography Abraham: The First Jew, Anthony Julius makes the case for the patriarch as the first “self-authored ...

The author of Genesis, in our first reading, brings this point home when he recounts the forging of the covenant between God and the patriarch Abraham…then called Abram. It is not a binding ...

The three distinct striated peaks in this rock formation are known as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ... The Court of the Patriarchs is located about a third of the way up Zion Canyon.