Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

Traditionally, Israel considered Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be the three patriarchs ... Abram did so, and Ishmael was born of their union. The patriarch also denied his wife twice, claiming ...

Hagar and Abraham had a son called Ishmael. This was not what God had promised and later Sarah and Abraham had their own son called Isaac. Abraham now had two sons, one with his wife Sarah and one ...

but for those religions that trace their prophets back to Prophet Abraham, and his two sons Ishmael and Isaac, the many names of God simply describe different appellations, aspects and attributes ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before ...