Ishmael’s people will be like them ... open on all the danger and turbulence of history. In the narrative of Genesis, Hagar has more in common with Abraham by far than does anyone else.

is used in the Bible to refer to oppression ... What the Torah does tell us is that the destiny of Hagar and Sarah, of Isaac and Ishmael are one; they are inextricably intertwined.

Midrash Tanhuma (Genesis 5.9, KTAV edition) seems to suggest that Isaac also maintained a connection with Hagar and Ishmael. This is based on a number of verses that link Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac ...

Hagar and Ishmael are part of Abraham’s family tree, proving that “it can absorb and naturalize outsiders.” In passages like these, I wondered what Reading Genesis would have been like if ...

When Ishmael, son of Hagar, ancestor of all Mohammedans, was born (Genesis 16:11-16), a pessimistic angel acidly remarked that he would be a wild man, his hand would be against every man ...

(Gn 21:17) Among the many women in the Bible who appear briefly but have ... Sarah’s jealousy to the point that she banishes Hagar and Ishmael to likely die in the desert. In her essay A ...