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What Rembrandt saw in Balaam
In the rabbinic imagination, messengers from nature convey God's truth - whether stones, trees, or a donkey - when the people ...
Addison Barger hit a walk-off single in the 11th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays extended their season-best winning streak to seven by beating the Los Angeles ...
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.
In pardoning his son Hunter, President Biden faced a challenge like Abraham's with Isaac: does family or faith — in the system — come first?
Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Abraham ascends Mount Moriah and Moses Mount Sinai. David ascends Mount Zion and there his son builds the temple, after the ...
Either we suffer eternally for our sins or a substitute is provided for the sinner. The ram the Lord provided on the mountain that day for Isaac and Abraham was a small picture of and glimpse into ...
The movie “His Only Son-Take Two” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, at Smoky Mountain Cinema in Waynesville. ”His Only Son” recounts one of the most controversial moments in the Old ...
February 25, 2024, the Second Sunday of Lent: It seems that Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son is not the most radical thing to contemplate this Sunday. Perhaps it is the belief in a hopeful ...
Abraham, we argued in last week’s study, was chosen to be the role model for all time of what it is to be a parent. We now see that the Binding of Isaac is the consummation of that story.
In other words, before Abraham even took his son up to the mountain, he had bound Isaac to an accord with the King of Gerar long before G-d ever tested Abraham with the command to sacrifice Isaac.
The biblical binding of Isaac and near human sacrifice committed by his father, Abraham, now appears in comic book form. Illustrated by Ben Schachter, a professor of digital art at Saint Vincent ...