brothers

Jacob’s Blessing

by

We are still in the early chapters of Genesis, and we have visited the theme of ‘brothers’ several times already. We’ve talked about Cain versus Abel, we’ve looked at the trouble among Noah’s three sons, and we saw what happened between Isaac and his step-brother Ishmael. The favorite versus the outcast. The chosen one versus … Read more

Cain and Abel, and the sons of Noah: Stories about brothers, and more shameful nudity

by

Cain and Abel were brothers. God favored Abel, so Cain killed Abel. I know very little about the very complicated relationships between brothers so I won’t say anything here about competition, favoritism, jealousy or the inability of primitive men to express their emotions and deal with their feelings non-violently.