Prof. Delaney, Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University delivered this speech on 18 April 2002 as part of the Markkula Ethics Center Lecture Series. In it she ...

Abraham's story begins when God tells him to go forth for himself to the land that God will shown him, and he goes. To me, the most enigmatic and interesting character in the Bible is neither Moses ...

Shouldn’t this great man be introduced along with his heroic credentials? Why is this his past résumé kept confidential? For approximately two thousand years, humanity was lost in theological ...

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, it might also ...

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Abraham is regarded by Jews as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people. This article examines his life, times and significance. The history of the Jewish people begins in Bronze Age times in the ...

Our tradition calls him Avraham Avinu – Abraham our Patriarch. But more than just being “our patriarch,” Abraham was our very first leader. What kind of leader was Abraham? Initially he was unknown to ...

This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...

Abraham is a very important figure in the Bible. He is a very important figure in our world today. When I think of Abraham, I think of a journeying man. I think: “He set out in faith.” One of the most ...

My first real experience of the patriarch Abraham’s crossover appeal came on the splendid sun-spangled day in June when I took a crosstown cab to arrange my son’s circumcision. Jews have circumcised ...

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