Isaac was the only biblical patriarch whose name was not changed, and the only one who did not leave Canaan.

Isaac was the oldest of the biblical patriarchs at the time of his death, and the only patriarch whose name was not changed.

* Judah ( biblical person ), fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob ( Israel )

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school, which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

The eponymous biblical patriarch of the Israelites is Jacob, who wrestled with God who gave him a blessing and renamed him " Israel " because he had " striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

The biblical term " Israelites " ( also the " Twelve Tribes " or " Children of Israel ") means both the direct descendants of the patriarch Jacob ( Israel ) as well as the historical populations of the united Kingdom of Israel.

Prior to a meeting with rival brother, Esau, the biblical patriarch Jacob wrestles an angel on the shores of the Jabbok and is given the name ' Israel '.

The term Hebrew, perhaps related to the name of the Habiru nomads, has Eber as an eponymous biblical patriarch.

Some authors argue that Ibri denotes the descendants of the biblical patriarch Eber ( Hebrew עבר ), son of Shelah, a great grandson of Noah and an ancestor of Abraham, hence the occasional anglicization Eberites.

“ One finds in the biblical text ,” writes Alfred Sendrey, “ a sudden and unexplained upsurge of large choirs and orchestras, consisting of thoroughly organized and trained musical groups, which would be virtually inconceivable without lengthy, methodical preparation .” This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school which taught not only prophets and holy men, but also sacred-rite musicians.

The name Ashkenazi derives from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz, the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations ( Genesis 10 ).

The Figurists viewed Fu Xi as Enoch, the biblical patriarch.

Jacob Frank ( יעקב פרנק Ya ' akov Frank, Jakob Frank ; ( 1726, Korolivka – December 10, 1791, Offenbach am Main ) was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob.

The ascription of its authorship to the biblical patriarch Abraham shows the high esteem which it enjoyed for centuries.

The biblical patriarch Abraham is seen by Philo as the symbol of man leaving sensuality to turn to reason.

It appears in its purest form in the biblical patriarch Isaac.

Two paintings from the early 1950s, for example, are called Adam and Eve ( see Adam and Eve ), and there is also Uriel ( 1954 ) and Abraham ( 1949 ), a very dark painting, which as well as being the name of a biblical patriarch, was also the name of Newman's father, who had died in 1947.

Circumcision was enjoined upon the biblical patriarch Abraham, his descendants and their slaves as " a token of the covenant " concluded with him by God for all generations, an " everlasting covenant " (), thus it is commonly observed by the Abrahamic religions.

In the poem, the biblical patriarch Abraham ( significantly called by his former name, Abram, in the poem ) takes Isaac — his only begotten son by his wife Sarah — with him to make a sacrificial offering to God.

Modern Kohanim claim descent from a biblical person, Aaron, brother of Moses, in the direct lineage from Levi, the patriarch of the Tribe of Levi, great grandson of Abraham, according to the tradition codified in the Tanakh ( שמות / Sh ' mot / Exodus 6 ).

Two paintings from the early 1950s, for example, are called Adam and Eve ( see Adam and Eve ), and there are also Uriel ( 1954 ) and Abraham ( 1949 ), a very dark painting, which, in addition to being the name of a biblical patriarch, was also the name of Newman's father, who had died in 1947.

Other notable possessions are 13 paintings of the biblical patriarch Jacob and his 12 sons in the refectory, by the hand of the studio of the Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán.

According to Bouvet, Fu Xi was really Enoch ( ancestor of Noah ) | Enoch, the biblical patriarch.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

The biblical account of the life of Jacob is found in the Book of Genesis, chapters 25-50.

Most biblical scholars and historians of ancient Israel today view the patriarchical narratives, including the life of Jacob, as late ( 6th and 5th centuries BCE ) literary compositions that have ideological and theological purposes but are unreliable for historical reconstruction of the presettlement period of Israel ’ s past.

These twins are contrasted in the book by allusions to sets of opposing twins and enemies in literature, mythology and history ; such as Set and Horus of the Osiris story ; the biblical pairs Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel, and Saint Michael and the Devil – equating Shaun with " Mick " and Shem with " Nick " – as well as Romulus and Remus.

* Armstrong adhered to a form of British Israelism which stated that the British, American and many European peoples were descended from the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, using this belief to state that biblical references to Israel, Jacob, etc., were in fact prophecies relating to the modern day, with literal application to the USA, Britain, and the British Commonwealth.

Kathleen E. McVey traces this to a blending by Jacob of Serugh of the two major but contradictory schools of biblical exegesis at the time: the building-as-microcosm tradition of the Antioch school combined with the Alexandrian view of the cosmos and firmament as composed of spheres and hemispheres, which was rejected by the Antioch school.

Modern biblical criticism has posited that Zipporah and the Cushite were different individuals, particularly since bigamy was legal, and practiced by, for example, Jacob.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Issachar, the ninth son of Jacob, and a son of Leah, from whom it took its name ; however some biblical scholars view this also as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

According to this biblical passage, the name Issachar refers to Leah hiring Jacob's sexual favours at the cost of some Mandrakes ; this suggests the etymology is ish-sachar, literally meaning man of hire, though some Jewish sources take it instead to mean reward or recompense, in reference to Issachar being the result of Jacob being hired.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was originally part of the house of Joseph, but the biblical account of this became lost ; the account of the birth of the other sons of Jacob is regarded by textual scholars as a complex mixture of Elohist and Yahwist texts, and very corrupt, and it is clear that parts of the corresponding Elohist text, and parts of the corresponding Yahwist text, are missing.

The biblical account shows Bilhah's status as a handmaid change to an actual wife of Jacob Genesis 30: 4.

Many Religious Jews espouse aliyah as a return to the Promised land, and regard it as the fulfillment of God's biblical promise to the descendants of the Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

* Jacob Bar-Salibi also known as Dionysius Bar-salibi, member of Syrian Jacobite Church in the 12th century, best known for his commentary on biblical texts

In the Biblical account, Leah's status as the first wife of Jacob, is regarded by biblical scholars as indicating that the authors saw the tribe of Issachar as being one of the original Israelite groups ; however, this may have been the result of a typographic error, as the names of Issachar and Naphtali appear to have changed places elsewhere in the text, and the birth narrative of Issachar and Naphtali is regarded by textual scholars as having been spliced together from its sources in a manner which has highly corrupted the narrative.

Jacob's Ladder is a " ladder to heaven ", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of Genesis

Jacob's Ladder ( Hebrew: Sulam Yaakov סולם יעקב ) is a ladder to heaven that the biblical Patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his brother Esau.

The name Gilead first appears in the biblical account of the last meeting of Jacob and Laban ().