He (God) said (to Abraham), “Take your son, your only son, the one you love, Isaac, and walk yourself to the land of Moriah and offer him up as a whole burnt offering…” Gen. 22 Had Tolstoy or James or ...

Genesis describes Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as “very fair,” then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the ...

OXFORD, ENGLAND—Live Science reports that Michael Zellmann-Rohrer of Oxford University has translated a 1,500-year-old papyrus discovered near the pyramid of Pharaoh Senwosret I in 1934 by researchers ...