The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons, are central to the Hebrew Bible narrative. Scholars question the ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

The twelve tribes of Israel, therefore, collectively carry the name of their father. Jacob had twelve sons with his four wives. With Leah, he had Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.

Each of Jacob’s twelve sons and his daughter were named by their ... Binyamin was the only child ("Ben") born in the land of Israel, which is in the south ("yamin") relative to the direction ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will discuss the week’s Parshah “through the ...

I have often argued that the episode in which the Jewish people acquired its name – when Jacob wrestled with an unnamed ...

The Book of Genesis shares the intriguing and familiar story of twin brothers, Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac. Jacob, ...