Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק, ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaq), or simply "The Binding" (הָעֲקֵידָה, hāʿAqēḏā),[1] is a story from Genesis 22 of the Hebrew Bible.
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In the story, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac at Moriah.[Gen 22:2-8] Abraham does this by binding (tying) Isaac to an altar,[Gen 22:9] but is stopped by an angel, who says "Do not lay a hand on the boy ... Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son".[Gen 22:12] A ram (male sheep) appears instead, and is sacrificed instead.[Gen 22:13]
In addition to being addressed by modern scholarship, this biblical episode has been the focus of a great deal of commentary in traditional sources of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
References
change- ↑ "Akedah". Jewish Virtual Library. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed March 25, 2011
- ↑ Berman, Louis A. (1997). The Akedah: The Binding of Isaac. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 1-56821-899-0.
- ↑ Bodoff, Lippman (2005). The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah: Seeds of Jewish Extremism and Alienation?. Devora Publishing. ISBN 1-932687-52-1.
- ↑ Boehm, Omri (2002). "The Binding of Isaac: An Inner Biblical Polemic on the Question of Disobeying a Manifestly Illegal Order". Vetus Testamentum. 52 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1163/15685330252965686.
- ↑ Boehm, Omri (2007). The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience. T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-02613-2.
- ↑ Delaney, Carol (1998). Abraham on Trial. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05985-3.
- ↑ Delaney, Carol (1999). "Abraham, Isaac, and Some Hidden Assumptions of Our Culture". The Humanist. May/June. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ↑ Caspi, Mishael; Greene, John T. (2007). Unbinding the Binding of Isaac. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-3566-0.