the guests told Abraham that upon his arrival next year, Sarah would have a son. While at the tent entrance, Sarah heard what was said, and she laughed to herself about the possibility of having a child at their ages. Sarah soon became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham, at the very...
The Story of Jacob and Joseph: Directed by Michael Cacoyannis. With Keith Michell, Tony Lo Bianco, Colleen Dewhurst, Herschel Bernardi. A movie telling the Biblical stories of the last of the Hebrew Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis.
“O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are God, ...
The myth and the facts are not my own. I read and extracted what I thought was interesting from: The Jews by Howard Fast A History of the Jews by Solomon Grayzel and The Bible as History by Werner Keller I. Abraham and his Sons About 4000 years ago, the world of the Nile, Tigris ...
To make a long story short, Sarah eventually conceived and gave birth to Isaac in Beersheba, in southern Canaan (about 44 miles south of Jerusalem and 26 miles due west of the Gaza Strip today). Isaac, of course, was the offspring God promised Abraham through whom God would populate the ...
I set the stage for digging deeper into the story of Abraham and Isaac in The Story of Abraham and Isaac Revisited: Introduction. Abraham’s faith is the lesson we all learned in Sunday school. Faith is the basic place we start, but Abraham’s faith is o
Who is Moses? In this lesson, learn about the story of Moses in the Bible and his significance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
In the second installment of the 13-part series from VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer, Volume 2: Let My People Go! [Exodus], finishes the book of Genesis with the stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, and then learn all about Moses and the Israelites' great escape from Egypt. Find out...
As the story of an abused foreign woman cast out into an inhospitable wilderness along with her son, the story raises troubling questions about the portrayal of domestic violence perpetuated by those otherwise celebrated as “faithful” within biblical narratives: Abraham and his wife Sarah. In ...
Beautifully written, acted, produced & directed Bible story that is shamefully rarely broadcast on terrestrial TV...it really is it up there with all the other Bible classics like Samson & Deliah, The Ten Commandments, King of Kings...etc ...