To understand Abraham properly ... And it is that covenant that remains the cornerstone of Jewish identity as well as the foundation into which we Gentiles, the wild olive branch, has been ...

This covenant establishes what we might call ... Hear Shaye Cohen comment on the importance of the Babylonian Exile to the Jewish religion. Abraham is the great forefather of Judaism, but was ...

Consider their inheritance: their great-grandfather Abraham disowned his son Ishmael ... For them, the Jewish covenant wasn’t rooted in family — it was about committing to God’s mission.

Abraham directed Eliezer to hold the site of his circumcision, a physical manifestation of his covenant with God ... (“taking hold of an object”). In Jewish tradition, a person taking an ...