(Reading: Genesis 15:1-21) To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again ...

In the covenant of the pieces, Abraham splits animals in half and prepares fowl – symbolic, according to Nachmanides, of the future Temple sacrificial service (Genesis 15:9, 10).

(Reading: Genesis 16:1-17:27; 21:8-20) 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.

It was through Abraham that the idea of the Promised Land close Promised Land The land promised by God to Abraham (Genesis 15:18), Moses, and the Israelites. Also known as the Land of Israel. , a ...

Chapter 17 God’s covenant with Abram, which includes renaming him “Abraham” and Sarai “Sarah,” promises him “all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding.” God is a kind of ...

The third and last part of the Abrahamic covenant is known as the promise of blessing and redemption. It can be found in Genesis 12:1-3, where God promises to bless Abraham and all of his descendants.

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” (Genesis 22: 7-8). Then Abraham builds the altar where he is prepared to sacrifice his son.

Similarly, when Abraham tasked his servant Eliezer with finding a suitable wife for Isaac, he asked Eliezer to place his hand upon his loins (Genesis 24:2). To modern readers, this act may seem ...

First of all, in Isaiah 41:8, Abraham is called by God “my friend.” (See also 2 Chronicles 20:7.) How did Abraham become God’s friend? He did so the way anyone becomes friends with someone else.