What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...

1 Zanoah, situated in the Promised Land or Canaan, is mentioned in the Bible story of Nehemiah as a town resettled by Jewish exiles returning from Babylonian captivity. These residents were ...

Here in Kenya we mused, for much of 2017, of our own journey to Canaan. We went up to the hills and looked yonder, to have a foretaste of The Promised Land. We looked beyond the terrain of latter ...

Trump’s current approach reinforces this painful truth: a planned, dignified migration could have preserved Palestinian lives ...