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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 ...

The Sacrifice of Isaac is a perennial. The centerpiece of last week’s Torah portion and read several weeks ago on Rosh Hashanah , it is one of the most discussed story of our tradition.

It’s difficult to imagine a biblical passage so well known and yet so utterly incomprehensible to modern readers as Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. In this age of Tiger Moms ...

The church has no interest in finding tweetable truths in the near-sacrifice of Isaac. She can only comprehend the meaning of his would-be murder in the cross of Christ: What God would not ask of ...

Nebhut said Abraham’s willingness to obey God and sacrifice Isaac in Genesis 22 has strong parallels to Jesus’s crucifixion. “Abraham took two servants with him to the mountain and Jesus was ...

While Isaac’s near death was, thankfully, substituted by a sacrifice, offerings by the cow-kowtowing Israelites result in their own punishment with death. The Golden Calf, in other words, is the ...

‘T ake your son, your only son, the one whom you love, Isaac, and dedicate him there for an olah [a burnt offering or, literally, a lifting up] on one of the mountains that I will tell you ...

Apparently, the Akeidah (the near-sacrifice of Isaac) separated them. Abraham “came to mourn for Sarah” [Gen. 23:2], arriving from somewhere else, to bury her.

And the verdict is: not guilty, by a razor-thin margin. An audience of more than 400 people had a chance to flex their "Law & Order" muscles while serving as the jury in the mock trial of Abraham ...