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During my Bible reading, I came across something I would like to share. Hot off the press!! (No pun intended). It’s found in Genesis Chapter 33. It’s the story where ...

(RNS) — In a vulnerable and inspiring new book due out in September, the New Testament scholar and writer recounts the story of his father's fall from grace and his long journey home. (RNS) — Esau ...

Years ago, a college classmate provocatively announced that he planned to name his first son “after the most maligned figure in the entire Torah: Esau.” Let’s consider Esau’s defense. After we are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I argue that in the anonymous academic interlude "The History of Jacob and Esau" (1558), the character Deborah, an allusion to both the ...

For almost 35 years, ever since I began writing blogs on Israel National News, Diaspora Jews have been chastising me for writing that there was no future for them in alien gentile lands. Soon, when ...