Sacrifice of Isaac. The Binding of Isaac is a story from the Hebrew Bible found in Genesis 22. In the biblical narrative, God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Moriah.
Abraham begins to comply, when a messenger from God interrupts him. Abraham then sees a ram and sacrifices it instead.
This episode has been the focus of a great deal of commentary in traditional Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources, as well as being addressed by modern scholarship. According to the Hebrew Bible, God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice.
After Isaac is bound to an altar, a messenger from God stops Abraham before the sacrifice finishes, saying now I know you fear God. Abraham looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac.
The passage states that the event occurred at the mount of the L in the land of Moriah. 2 Chronicles 3:1 refers to mount Moriah as the site of Solomon's Temple, while Psalms 24:3; Isaiah 2:3 & 30:29; and Zechariah 8:3 use the term the mount of the LORD to refer to the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the location believed to be the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah, Lippman Bodoff argues that Abraham never intended to actually sacrifice his son, and that he had faith that God had no intention that he do so. Rabbi Ari Kahn elaborates this view as follows: Isaac's death was never a possibility, not as far a
Abraham begins to comply, when a messenger from God interrupts him. Abraham then sees a ram and sacrifices it instead.
This episode has been the focus of a great deal of commentary in traditional Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources, as well as being addressed by modern scholarship. According to the Hebrew Bible, God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice.
After Isaac is bound to an altar, a messenger from God stops Abraham before the sacrifice finishes, saying now I know you fear God. Abraham looks up and sees a ram and sacrifices it instead of Isaac.
The passage states that the event occurred at the mount of the L in the land of Moriah. 2 Chronicles 3:1 refers to mount Moriah as the site of Solomon's Temple, while Psalms 24:3; Isaiah 2:3 & 30:29; and Zechariah 8:3 use the term the mount of the LORD to refer to the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, the location believed to be the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders & Kabbalah, Lippman Bodoff argues that Abraham never intended to actually sacrifice his son, and that he had faith that God had no intention that he do so. Rabbi Ari Kahn elaborates this view as follows: Isaac's death was never a possibility, not as far a
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