Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being tested by God. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abra… ...

The real Abraham possessed tremendous kindness, manifested in his hospitality to strangers and in other ways. G-d tested him with the sacrifice of his son, an attempt for Abraham to show G-d and ...

The sacrifice of a child, by anyone, for any cause, is ungodly. Isaac Steven Herschkopf is a psychiatrist and frequent contributor to these pages.

Abraham's binding and sacrifice of Isaac appear often in early Renaissance art in Florence, a turbulent period in which Christian theologians saw the story as both a prefigurement of Christ's ...

George Segal’s ‘Sacrifice of Isaac’ brings back memories of Yom Kippur War The pop artist modeled his biblical sculpture, last seen in public some 46 years ago, on Menashe Kadishman and son ...

For Jews, this is the story of the sacrifice of Isaac at God’s command (stopped, of course, at the last moment, by an angel sent by God). Imam Haytham Younis, 2012, Rockville, MD.

God sends Abraham with Isaac, his olah, on what seems to be a death mission and they, too, must wander towards an unknown destination [Gen. 22:3].

Q:Good God Squad piece this week, Rabbi! I am preaching this coming Sunday on that father/son relationship of Abraham and Isaac at my church in Patchogue, N.Y., where I serve as pastor. I love ...

The Akeda (Binding of Isaac) is sometimes mistakenly called “The Sacrifice of Isaac”. Of course Isaac wasn’t actually sacrificed. Yet in one limited sense the term is apposite.

It is a sly and menacing retelling of the famous episode of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac from Genesis 22.