T he patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the chosen people of God would grow into a mighty nation. God also ...

These changes could not have been arbitrary. Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the Bible, we are told that a divine being he wrestled with ...

Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew Bible about the founding ... "Especially influential are the stories of ...