In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

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 ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call. Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan ...

Why does God call Abraham “my friend”? (Isaiah 41:8) Because Abraham introduced his friends to the imageless, formless One. His friends joined Sarah and Abraham in prayer each and every new moon.

But God’s not done with Abraham. By purely human logic, ... He’s often called the last representative of the Flemish School of Painting and, considering he died in 1811, ...

God’s covenant with Abraham is depicted in a medieval illustration from a manuscript from around the 13th century, Rudolf von Ems’ depiction in the Weltchronik (World History).