Abraham was a warrior who would stop at nothing to bring his kidnapped nephew–who was really like a son– home. And so too ...

Remarkably however, the previous chapter gives us a quite different perspective: ...

The Rev. Dr. Samuel Rosenblatt, rabbi of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation and lecturer in Jewish literature at the Johns Hopkins University, is one of three Baltimore scholars who have been extended ...

The Torah presents Abraham not as a spiritual giant chosen by default but as Everyman. He is not depicted as a polished hero ...

Maimonides dismissed it as a forgery. For him, indulging in any corporeal description of God was unacceptable, because it could be proven through the laws of eternal motion that God has no body. This ...