Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish perspective of sacrifice in the Old Testament, ...

Abraham’s ultimate call from God was to sacrifice his son Isaac. God had promised to bring him descendants “as numerous as the sands on the seashore” through Isaac.

The Bible calls this the Tabernacle of David. David made plans for a Temple on Mount Moriah (the same mountain where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac), but God wouldn’t let him due to his violent past.

Secondly, when Isaac asked Abraham the question of where the lamb for the burnt offering is, because they had all the items required for a burnt sacrifice, but without the lamb, Abraham replies that ...

Isaac is the fulfillment of God’s promise, the long-awaited and almost-despaired-of biological heir and heir of the covenant. Now God asks Abraham to sacrifice him.

Unmasking the persistence of the sacrificial impulse in contemporary society. in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited ...

Unmasking the persistence of the sacrificial impulse in contemporary society. in Genesis 22:1–19, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham, who had waited ...