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]
In Christianity, the binding of Isaac is seen to prefigure the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. The incident occurred on Mt. Moriah, which is associated with the Temple Mount as well as Calvary, where Jesus would die 2,000 years later.[9]
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.
- ↑ "The Offering of Isaac | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org". Ligonier Ministries. Retrieved 2024-11-25.