The map shows the journey and life of Abraham with an inset map of his journey from Ur to Canaan, as well as 22 medallions of significant life events. The map highlights Ortelius’s gift as ...

When Abraham and Sarah left Haran to go to the Land of Canaan, most of their friends joined them on their journey. When Jacob’s twelve sons married, most of them married the descendants of ...

Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (the Kli Yakar, 1550-1619) asks this question in Genesis 24:3 on the verse that Abraham commanded his son not to marry from the daughters of Canaan lest he learn from ...

Something we feel. Like Abraham, we are called to the figurative Canaan, called to today’s Israel, because there is something inside us we know beyond the mechanics of our everyday lives.

Birds and bullfrogs abound. Legend holds that Abraham, patriarch to the Jewish, Christian and Muslim peoples, stopped at this oasis with his family while traveling from Mesopotamia to Canaan.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.” – (Genesis 9:20-22) The name Canaan appears for the first time in this story of the degradation of Noah.

What makes the story of Avraham (Abraham) and Sarah going to Egypt important enough to be included in the Genesis narrative? (Genesis 12:10-20) Ramban suggests that this is an example of the maxim … ...

all the possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. (Gn 12:5) This week, I’m moving out of New York City.