Segal chose the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac to express, in his words, “the eternal conflict between adherence to an abstract set of principles versus ... Director of the Princeton University ...

Abraham's binding and sacrifice of Isaac appear often in early Renaissance art in Florence, a turbulent period in which Christian theologians saw the story as both a prefigurement of Christ's ...

With its long coastline, rugged mountains and haunting sand dunes, Oman is a paradise for desert lovers, hikers and boaters. Muscat, the capital city, is a gem—its arched white buildings and flat ...

And just as he tested Abraham with the sacrifice of his son Isaac on Mount Moriah ... roles in a play and real murder results) turn his art into a mixture of dramatics and science.

he has chosen for his subject Abraham's supreme trial of faith and the rescue of Isaac from being offered by his father as a sacrifice. The text selected is Genesis, xxil., 7: "Behold the fire and ...

I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham ... art form in the first century and all of them tried to cut their teeth on the impossible story of the sacrifice of ...

The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son ...