I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

Isaac Blessing Jacob’, circa 1638, (1914). Biblical scene: Painting in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. From “Bibby’s Annual 1914”, edited by Joseph Bibby. [J. Bibby & Sons, London, 1914].

in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited decades for the birth of Isaac, the son promised by God to carry on his ...