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The patriarchs ( Hebrew: אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as "the patriarchs", and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age .
The anglicized name "Isaac" is a transliteration of the Hebrew name יִצְחָק ( Yīṣḥāq) which literally means "He laughs/will laugh". Ugaritic texts dating from the 13th century BCE refer to the benevolent smile of the Canaanite deity El. [ 3] The Genesis ascribes the laughter to Isaac's parents, Abraham and Sarah, instead.
Patriarchal age. The patriarchal age is the era of the three biblical patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, according to the narratives of Genesis 12–50 (these chapters also contain the history of Joseph, although Joseph is not one of the patriarchs). It is preceded in the Bible by the primeval history and followed by The Exodus .
Abraham's family tree. Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant. Although Abraham's forefathers were from southern Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq) [ 1] according ...
Fear and Trembling. Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ( Latin for John of the Silence ). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, which says to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and ...
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. And half the seed of Europe, one by one. " The Parable of the Old Man and the Young " is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title ...
History. When the Israel Festival Committee asked Stravinsky for a new work, he decided to set the story of Abraham and Isaac to a text in Hebrew, a language with which he was not familiar. The philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, who was a friend of the composer, helped Stravinsky to understand the sounds and structure of the text.
Abraham Isaac Kook ( Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, [ 1] and also known by the Hebrew-language acronym Hara'ayah[ 2] ( הראי״ה ), [ 3] was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is ...