“As we approach the 50th anniversary of this watershed moment in modern U.S. history, it is high time that this thought-provoking work of art be brought home from its foolishly imposed exile.” While ...

Titian’s great painting, “Sacrificio di Isacco” [The Sacrifice of Isaac] captures that drama. The color palette — dark and gray, with clouds blocking the sun — reflects the somberness of ...

The ANCESTORS FAMILIES series. Part II of 4. Artistic interpretation of the Torah in Michael Rogatchi Art. In between the first Jewish couple of Abraham and Sarah and the couples that their ...

Guest Columnist Werner Lange taught sociology at Kent State University from 1975 to 1994. On May 4, 1970, he was one of the many anti-war student protesters on the campus of The Ohio State University.

Sarah: “Abraham has another son; talk to him, not me.” ... Some commentators even expand the story to say that Isaac was slain and then resurrected. ... Jewish Textile Art as Modern Midrash, ...

There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on.

Chapter 22 The sacrifice of Isaac: It is the most harrowing story so far. Over and over Genesis tells us how Abraham had longed for a son with Sarah, how it had been the only thing he had ever ...

In an act of cowardly favoritism, Abraham surrenders Hagar to the venomous anger of Sarah: “Behold, your maidservant is in your hands. Do to her anything that is pleasing in your eyes.”(16:6).

To the Editor: Bruce Chilton’s “Abraham’s Curse” (The Chronicle Review, February 15) engages in the politically and theologically fashionable practice of moral equivalence by suggesting ...