The first convert Avram made was a neighbor named Eved Shemesh from the city of Damascus, He was a sun worshiper. Once, when Eved Shemesh got a bad sunburn, Avram asked him if the sun god was angry at ...

Hagar returned and bore Avram’s son Ishma’el at the end of Genesis 16. In Genesis 17, Avram is circumcised, and the covenant ...