Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Isaac is something of a transitional figure. That doesn’t make him unimportant, but he is transitional. He’s important because he ...

I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic faiths not only because Abraham was the first monotheist but because he was so famously devoted to God. His obedience was so strong that he was ...

Isaac Blessing Jacob’, circa 1638, (1914). Biblical scene: Painting in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. From “Bibby’s Annual 1914”, edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914].

President Donald Trump repeatedly touted the “Abraham Accords” in his Middle East trip on Monday, seeking to build on 2020 agreements that expanded the number of Arab states with diplomatic ties with ...

Gen. 22: 9.--And they came to the place which God had told them of: and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on the wood.

Genesis 22:2, 13-14 - God said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will ...

Continuing this eight-part series on men in the Bible, the fourth in the series is Isaac. As a practicing, committed Catholic for over fifteen years, I have learned a lot about Abraham and about Jacob ...