Tag: Book of Genesis

  • Was Ketu­rah the Wife or the Con­cu­bine of Abraham ?

    Accord­ing to Gen­e­sis 25:1, Ketu­rah is described as being Abra­ham’s wife : “Abra­ham mar­ried anoth­er wife named Keturah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is (​‘ishshah) (Strong’s No. 802)[1] and The Brown-Dri­ver-Brig­gs Hebrew and Eng­lish Lex­i­con (2001) defines the mean­ing of the word as ​“woman, wife, female”[2]. But accord­ing to I Chron­i­cles 1:32, we are…

  • The Prob­lem of Paul Regard­ing Esau

    There is an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion made by a pro-Torah Chris­t­ian and he has issued a ​“chal­lenge” to Pauline Chris­tians regard­ing Paul’s (mis)understanding of the nature of Esau in the eyes of God. The issue is what Paul had writ­ten in his epis­tle to the Romans, as follows : “For the chil­dren not yet being born, nor hav­ing…