A few verses earlier God instructs Isaac not to go down to Egypt. Isaac is the only patriarch who does not leave the land of Israel. Abraham has been led to a new land. His son proves that his ...

I am ashamed to say it, but when I was a kid I thought Isaac, the Jewish patriarch, was a wuss: a good son, a spitting image of his father, a willing volunteer to be sacrificed to God, a learned ...

On the World Day of Eastern Christians, a liturgy was celebrated at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday, May 25, presided ...

Herzog might have thought that lighting the first Hanukkah candle in the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob are buried would be a symbolic act of unity. What he ...

The "Akedah" – the Binding of Isaac – is a 15-verse self-contained story with three main characters, God, Abraham, and Isaac. The narrative is called the Binding of Isaac but it is prefaced by ...