According to the Quran, the son involved in the sacrifice however, was Ishmael, not Isaac. Suskin: For Jews, Abraham’s perfect awe for God, demonstrated by his willingness to sacrifice his son ...

Abraham’s first son, Ishmael, became corrupted and began, at the age of fifteen, to worship idols like the Canaanites around him. When his brother Isaac was born, Ishmael would shoot arrows at ...

Ishmael hated Isaac; he was jealous of Isaac, because Isaac was not a slave child, but the special son of God’s promise. Abraham had another wife, Keturah. She had six sons by Abraham (Genesis 25).

Are Ishmael the biological son of Abraham and Esau the biological grandson of Abraham (Isaac’s biological son) legitimate children of Abraham and part of the Abrahamic covenantal people?

For through Isaac shall your seed be named, and I will also transform the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is also your seed.”(21:12-13) So Abraham expels Hagar and Ishmael ...

Among his children was the first born Ishmael (Ismael ... what captures the Jewish imagination is Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac, to God. It was a test of faith that has ...

The universal assumption is that the son referred to here is Ishmael. I respectfully disagree and maintain that the son about whom he is worried is in fact Isaac. The reasons are both textual and ...

It gets translated as God saying to Abraham: “Take your son, your only [yechidcha] son, the one that you love, Isaac, and go forth to the land of Moriah and offer him up there as a sacrifice ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one ...

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According to the Quran, the son involved in the sacrifice however, was Ishmael, not Isaac. Suskin: For Jews, Abraham’s perfect awe for God, demonstrated by his willingness to sacrifice his son, ...