Abusing Abraham: Traditions, religious, histories, and modern misinterpretations

From: Judaism | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,JEWS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE seen in the aqedah a supreme act of religious devotion.

Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, "Abraham," and he answered, "Here I am." And He said," Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you." So early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told ...

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