Post Did they just find Noah’s Ark? The Torah’s fantastic story of Noah herding animals onto his boat and taking care of them for 40 days and 40 nights while torrential rainfall flooded the earth is one… Read More
Post Do Camels Prove the Bible is False? A 2014 article in the New York Times, “Camels had no Business in Genesis” argues that although camels appear frequently in Genesis, they weren’t even domesticated until several hundred years… Read More
Post Do Jews Believe in the Afterlife? After 175 years, Abraham passes away and the Torah uses a very specific formula to describe what happens to him: he was gathered to his kin. Isaac (Genesis 35:29) and… Read More
Post Encountering the Covenant Between God and Noah Sondra Oster Baras of Christian Friends of Israeli Communities explains the significance of a Biblical covenant, which is a two-way street that God makes with humanity. Noah is told, “be… Read More
Post From the North to South and East to West Once Abraham arrives in the Land of Israel, there are many descriptions of the geography of the land, as if God has to familiarize and orient our Patriarch to his… Read More
Post Where is Mount Moriah is located? The famous story of the Binding of Isaac begins with God telling Abraham to take his beloved son Isaac “to the land of Moriah” however, nowhere else in Genesis is… Read More
Post Is Ishmael the Father of the Arabs? After Abraham banishes Hagar, God reassures the Patriarch. As the firstborn son of Abraham, God blesses Ishmael to be a “great nation.” While it is widely assumed that the present-day… Read More
Post Lesson Number One of The Israel Bible The Israel Bible contains hundreds of important study notes that highlight the importance of the Land and People of Israel throughout Tanakh, and it’s impossible to pick my favorite. However,… Read More
Post Life and Leadership Lessons from Noah’s Ark There are so many leadership lessons from Noah. In our course, “Political Leadership Through Genesis: What WE can learn from Noah’s leadership,” Ruth Lieberman explains that everything you need to… Read More
Post Life at the Dead Sea: Reversing the Curse of Sodom and Gomorrah According to the Bible, the landscape around the Dead Sea changed with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which turned the fertile valley into a desert wasteland. However, Biblical prophecy… Read More