Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism. Abraham ...

As the Jewish New Year begins later this month, I will join Jews in reflecting on beginnings. I was married earlier this year, and celebrate my birthday on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Since ...

This article looks at the second covenant, given by God at Mount Sinai and reinforcing the covenant that God had given to Abraham. The covenant that God gave at Mount Sinai reinforced the covenant ...

God chose the Israelites to be his people, his nation, his children. And so they are his children, a family established through the covenant God ratified with Abraham. At the heart of the covenant was ...

In Genesis chapter four, Abram brings a tithe or a tenth to Melchizedek of all of the goods he had taken from the King of Sodom. Abram did not take any of the spoils for himself because he did not ...

The covenant God makes with Abraham in Genesis twelve is given without conditions, and God promises to bless those who bless ...

The story of Joseph is one of those rare narratives in Tanach in which a Jew (Israelite/Hebrew) comes to play a prominent part in a gentile society – the others are, most notably, the books of Esther ...

The Vatican has approved the U.S. bishops' 2008 decision to change a sentence in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults that called God's covenant with the Jewish people "eternally valid for ...