It also has deep connections to Christianity and other Abrahamic religions, which is a source of both affinity and tension. Another good way to make sense of world religions is to sort them into ...

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

you would do what Abraham did, 40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God; this is not what Abraham did. 41 You do what your father did." They said to ...

Abraham was first known as Abram but when he followed God, he had his name changed. He lived with his family in Ur, believed to be in modern day Iraq. At that time, it is likely that the people of ...