Abraham delivered the ‘unkindest cuts’ to his household (circumcision) and was willing to slaughter his Jewish son on an altar; this is kindness? Isaac ... it. Jacob giving Laban [white!] ...

He knew that, if he could, Laban would keep him in his household as a kind of prisoner. In this respect, Jacob’s experience was closer to the Exodus than that of Abraham or Isaac. No one stopped ...

where he spends 22 years with his wily and deceptive uncle Laban. Jacob flees because his brother Esau threatened to murder him for deceptively taking the blessings that their father, Isaac ...

Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham ... then plots to kill Jacob after Isaac’s death. Rebekah, aware of this murderous plan, sends Jacob off to her brother, Laban, in Paddan Aram.

As well, it appears that Rebecca – “the sister of Laban ... from any ambivalence Isaac may feel toward Jacob, just as it never diminishes from the ambivalence Abraham has toward Isaac.

The people of Haran, chief among them Laban, Jacob’s uncle ... the Jewish entry into Israel for seven generations—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Levi, Kehat, Amram, and Moses. Had Abraham not given ...

In other words: Since Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not live a lifestyle according to the rabbinical “hahlacha”; then they were not Jewish. So, for example: Rabbinical law states that Judaism ...

Indeed, Isaac seems to fade after the sacrifice, with his life story told in just one chapter, compared to more than a dozen chapters for both Abraham and Jacob. Worse yet, Isaac’s chapter “is ...

Edom, the ancestor of the Edomites and Jacob, is known as Esau’s sister according to the Old Testament. Jacob comes from a pastoral milieu, whereas Esau comes from a nomadic hunting community. In ...