A Rock on Which to Build the World

Thomas Cahill, an American scholar and writer, wrote in his book The Gifts of the Jews about the call of Abraham: If we had lived in the second millennium BC, the millennium of Abraham, and could have canvassed all the nations of the earth, what would they have said of Abraham’s journey? In most of Africa and Europe, they would have laughed at Abraham’s madness and pointed to the heavens, wh