Genesis presents Abram as making his way to Canaan. There, near the oak grove of Moreh (12:6), Abram receives a vision from God that he would give him that land (even though it was inhabited ...

One of the most fundamental questions about the Torah turns out to be one of the hardest to answer. What, from G-d’s calling to Abraham in Genesis 12 to the death of Joseph in Genesis 50, is the ...

Abraham journeys into Canaan upon God’s command, Genesis 12. Illustration was published in “bible or books of new testament and old testament (1875) scan by Ivan Burmistrov ivan-96/Getty Images ...

In the Hebrew Bible, Prophet Abraham is the first person to be called a “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13). The term Hebrew comes from the verb ‘to go over a boundary’— like the Euphrates or ...