I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

Abraham could have resigned Isaac to God, sacrificing his son for ... the complexity in Abraham’s willing sacrifice of his beloved son. In Kierkegaard’s sense, one must necessarily have ...

Abraham delivered the ‘unkindest cuts’ to his household (circumcision) and was willing to slaughter his Jewish son on an altar; this is kindness? Isaac hung out with his wicked son Esau ...

This teaches how beloved ... does name Isaac as Abraham’s offering, are themselves totally wrong, because the final trial for Abraham was two fold. The Qur’an names neither son because it ...