In Genesis 21, God's promise to Abraham is finally fulfilled, as Sarah gives birth to Isaac. But she frets over whether Ishmael will also be Abraham's heir.

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

In modern terms, the Jewishness of Abraham fundamentally consists of belief. He communicates with God, and God communicates with him. Now, the rabbis of old imagined that Abraham observed the ...

Abraham and Sarah are two people who live Ruth’s soliloquy to Naomi, But Ruth replied, “Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge ...

Abraham's brother, George, is now a professor at MIT. After medical school, in the 1980s Dr. Verghese took a residency in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he found a growing number of people with ...