Esau, Jacob, a pot of red lentils, and the lunchtime decision that split the ancient Near East in two. The day the Middle East changed, Esau was hungry. Not metaphorically hungry — actually, physically, miserably famished. He’d been out hunting, the way he always was, and whatever he’d gone out for had escaped him, orContinue reading “The Worst Trade in History Was Made for a Bowl of Soup:”