A Flemish Baroque painting reanimates Genesis 16–21 and helps us reflect on trust, covenant and the consequences of human ...

was Ishmael (Arabic Isma’il). Some Muslims assert it was Isaac. I think both participated in the test at different times, so that each son could produce descendants who in time would become a ...

This is why even the descendants of prophets like Noah and Ishmael did not remain an ongoing monotheistic community; and after several generations reverted to idolatry and polytheism. Abraham ...

Although God loves all of mankind and He has certainly blessed the descendants of Ishmael, He specifically had made promises to Abraham that involved the promised son Isaac. Joseph is another good ...

Luke’s genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ traces ... of Shem, of Terah, of Ishmael, Isaac, Esau and Jacob. The structure of the book is progressive. The writer carefully traces the rise of ...

According to the Holy Qur’an (3:84), “Say, We have believed in God and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was ...