Christianity, and Islam. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather...

Abraham as a burial plot, although most historians believe the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob narrative to be primarily mythological. The site is considered a holy...

Olympics. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Isaac Jacob Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference...

Isaac-Jacob Adolphe Crémieux (French: [adɔlf kʁemjø]; 30 April 1796 – 10 February 1880) was a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice...

wife Sarah. Biblical tradition holds that the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, along with their wives Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah, were buried in the...

(Shabbat 138a; Ketuvot 29b et passim). Flourished in the 12th century; student of Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi. He corresponded with Jacob Tam and was a fellow student...

following the Vulgate) "Ego Dominus qui apparui Abraham, Isaac et Jacob in Deo omnipotente: et nomen meum Adonai non indicavi eis" (Exodus 6:2-3) "dux...

Jacob ben Hayyim ben Isaac ibn Adonijah or Jacob ben Chayyim (c. 1470 – before 1538), was a scholar of the Masoretic (𝕸) textual notes on the Hebrew Bible...

Isaac ben Jacob Ḥayyut (died 1726) was a Polish rabbi. He was descended from an old Provençal family which first settled in Bohemia, and was the grandson...

Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian...

Jacob ben Isaac al-Corsono or Carsono or Carsi (also Abu Ishaq Ya'qub ibn Ishaq ibn Ya'qub, known as Ibn al-Qursunuh) was a Spanish astronomer of the...

1822. Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob. "Derek Eẓ haḤayyim" דרך עץ החיים. אוצר הספרים (in Hebrew). Vilnius. p. 118. Retrieved Oct 29, 2023. Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob...

Isaac Jacob Weissberg (Yiddish: יצחק יעקב ווייסבערג; 1841 – July 1904) was a Russian Hebrew writer and educator. He contributed articles to various Hebrew...

life, he mentions two Bohemian scholars as his teachers, Jacob ha-Laban and Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan. Led by a thirst for Talmudic knowledge, he undertook...

Isaac Jacob Schmidt (Russian: Яков Иванович (Исаак Якоб) Шмидт; 25 October [O.S. 14 October] 1779 — 20 September [O.S. 8 September] 1847 ) was an Orientalist...

Isaac ben Jacob Canpanton (1360–1463) (Hebrew: יצחק קנפנטון) was a Spanish rabbi. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferrand Martinez...

album The Joshua Tree includes the lyric "Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome." The lyrics of Isaac, a song featured on Madonna's Confessions...

public domain: Solomon Schechter and Joseph Jacobs (1901–1906). "Judah ben Isaac". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York:...

publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Itze (Isaac) of Chernigov". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk...

Hebrew Bible. He was the brother of Rebekah, the woman who married Isaac and bore Jacob. Laban welcomed his nephew, and set him the stipulation of seven...

not a continent. Jacob Le Maire was born in either Antwerp or Amsterdam, one of the 22 children of Maria Walraven of Antwerp and Isaac Le Maire (1558–1624)...

Isaac ben Jacob Benjacob (10 January 1801, Ramygala – 2 July 1863, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian Jewish maskil, best known as a bibliographer, author, and...

the death of her husband, Jacob ha-Kohen (1254), Bella went to Marseille, where Bionguda became engaged to Isaac ben Isaac. Samuel ibn Tibbon, who at...

Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob or Yitzhak ben Yaakov, nicknamed "ha-Lavan" or "the white" was a 12th-century rabbi of Bohemia. He was a Tosafist and liturgical...

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines (Hebrew: יצחק יעקב ריינס, Isaac Jacob Reines), (October 27, 1839 – August 20, 1915) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder...

Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...

John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in...

Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela (Hebrew: שם טוב אבן שפרוט) (born at Tudela, Kingdom of Navarre in the middle of the 14th century) was a Spanish Jewish...

author. Isaac ben Asher also wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch, which is no longer extant. It is cited in the Minchat Yehudah, and Jacob Tam made...

Elijah Alfandari Ḥayyim ben Isaac Raphael Alfandari the Younger Ḥayyim ben Jacob Alfandari the Elder Isaac Raphael Alfandari Jacob ben Ḥayyim Alfandari Solomon...