And what it has to do with Passover.
The argument over Sodom and the meaning of prayer.
The contradictions of Shechem.
Instead, he founded a family.
Seeing the tale of Abraham and Sarah through mature eyes.
Casting the story of Abraham in a different light.
“You will give truth to Jacob, lovingkindness to Abraham.”
Why not throw out troubling parts of the Bible?
The tenth anniversary of a seminal book on the patriarch’s legacy.
The conservative patriarch.
And why a dominant academic theory about Judaism’s origins might be wrong.
The mysterious civilization centuries before Abraham.
Not to feel any guilt, any troubling of the conscience, is a sign of our own moral failure.