The story of Jacob’s wrestling match reminds every believer: spiritual victory often comes through honest struggle.

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ‘Muslim’ Hebrew, ...

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and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The Bible portion opens as Jacob begins his journey from ...

I love the story of Jacob recorded for us in the book of beginnings, Genesis. He is quite the character! He started his self-promotion early on and he got named ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel ... dramas in the Bible: after Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, Jacob ...

Jacob L. Wright in the final chapter of ... emerged from any other client state of the period. “That Israel and Judah produced a Bible is not because an early form of monotheism or unique ...