If you read through Exodus too quickly, you might miss the moment when Yahweh, just after he appoints Moshe to deliver His Israelite...

It was normal in the ancient world to end important works of literature with grandiose poems. The book Genesis is no exception. And so,...

This is the third and final entry for the portions which cover the Yoseph Novella. We began with The Godly Shepherd, in which we saw...

For thirteen years, Yoseph’s brothers saw him not, thinking that he had been wallowing in slavery. When fate finally brought them back...

It could be nothing short of Divine Intervention that would result in the early Israelite family surviving long enough to grow into a...

One of the purposes of the opening narrative of Genesis is to show that Yahweh, as the one-and-only Creator of the cosmos, is also the...

Yaakov the Trickster met his match when he fled to find sanctuary with Lavan. This would be one of Genesis's great moments of poetic...

The story of the sons of Yitshak is a troubling one with some glaring questions; How can it be that Yaakov, the heir to the covenant...

When it came time for Avraham to choose a wife for his heir Yitzhak, he was quite picky. As he charges his servant, Don’t take a woman...

There is a reason that an ancient Israelite penned an anti-child-sacrifice polemic; To his disgust, Israelites were sacrificing their own...

The 15th chapter of the book Genesis is amazing; So cryptic, evocative and mysterious what with the details that the author chose to...

The Israelite story of the flood, as we have it today, ends with Yahweh bestowing a blessing upon humankind through Noah. In this...

Kayin is not remembered favorably. His offering to Yahweh was flawed, and in a moment of uncontrolled anger and jealousy, he brought his...