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The story about the near-sacrifice or binding of Isaac is one of the most influential in the Bible. Among Christians this moment is seen as a prefiguration of the actual death of Jesus.

Genesis 24, which describes an event after the Akedah (the name given to the near sacrifice of Isaac, meaning “binding [of Isaac]”) tells that Abraham sent his most loyal servant to his ...

Abraham leading Isaac to sacrifice. Painting by Domenico Zampieri/Kimbell Art Museum The following is excerpted from Unscrolled: 54 Artists and Writers Wrestle With the Torah, edited by Roger ...

He’s important because he prefigures Christ. Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is ...

The set-up to the near-sacrifice of Isaac is Abraham’s having to send away Ishmael, Abraham’s other son. After all, as the Bible’s first book makes clear, from Cain killing Abel to the coat ...

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 ...

But I ask you to imagine Abraham standing there, knife in hand, Isaac bound before him. And then ask yourself: What could a story of near-child sacrifice possibly have to teach us today?

“But God said to Abraham: ‘Let it not grieve you, because of the youth, or because of your maidservant; everything that Sarah says to you, listen to her; for in Isaac shall seed be called to ...