This tiny section of the book of Genesis has an outsized significance for the ongoing story of YHWH. I have often called this pericope the "lynchpin of the Bible," and by that I do not mean merely the ...
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Thirty years ago William L. Holladay wrote in these pages that the narrative of Genesis 12:1–9 was “stripped bare” by its authors in order to tell a simple story: God commands Abram to go, and Abram ...
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