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	Abraham's Knife - The Mythology of the Deicide in Antisemitism
		Using Abraham's aborted attempt to sacrifice Isaac as her starting point, Civan argues that the Church fathers found themselves in a conundrum in their efforts to link the Akedah (the basis for the covenant between God and the Jews) to the the Crucifixion (the justification for the "New Covenant" between God and Chrisianity).
		Jews substituted Torah for sacrifice; the Pauline Christians substituted the sacrifice of Jesus for Torah.
		Civan is unblinking in her radical conclusion: Christians were taught, "the sacrificer (of Jesus) was actually not God Himself, but the Jews, the descendants of that Abraham who almost wielded his knife at the near sacrifice of Isaac.
	www.abrahamsknife.com /reviews.shtml (1908 words)

	A History of Human Sacrifice
		Aztec priests believed that the sacrifices they performed in the temples on top of pyramids - cutting out the still-beating heart of their victims with the blood flowing down the steps of the pyramid - were necessary to keep the sun on its daily path.
		There is evidence that human sacrifice still continues today in isolated parts of the world, and researchers have known cases where it is practiced by shamans on behalf of people - including cocaine traffickers - seeking to avert natural disasters or to improve their wealth.
		Sacrifice upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader; the sacrifices were to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews5/humansacrifice.htm (1884 words)

	Isaac
		Isaac was circumcised by his father Abraham when eight days old (4-7); and a great feast was held in connection with his being weaned.
		For many readers, both religious believers and not, the Near sacrifice of Isaac is one of the most troubling and provocative stories in the Bible.
		Isaac is "at once a counterpart of his father in simple devoutness and purity of life, and a contrast in his passive weakness of character, which in part, at least, may have sprung from his relations to his mother and wife.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/is/Isaac.html (391 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ISAAC. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Isaac was circumcised when he was eight days old, and at his weaning the parents manifested their joy by giving a great feast.
		Isaac therefore settled among the Philistines at Gerar, where, fearing lest Rebekah's beauty should tempt the Philistines to kill him, he had recourse to a stratagem that had been used in similar circumstances by his father; he pretended that she was his sister.
		Isaac died at Hebron, at the age of 180, shortly after the return of Jacob and his family from Mesopotamia, and was buried by his two sons in the cave of Machpelah, beside Abraham and Sarah.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=174&letter=I&search=Isaac (1785 words)

	Jesse Tree Advent Calendar - December 8 - Isaac
		Isaac was the long awaited "child of promise" born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age about 2066 B.C. Legend says that his resemblance to his father was so striking that, in spite of the vast differences in their ages, he was often mistaken for him.
		The sacrifice of Abraham's son was a foretype of the sacrifice of God's Son.
		Isaac's akedah became a symbol of martyrdom especially among some Jews in the Middle Ages who decided to kill their children rather than submit to forced conversion and Christian baptism.
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/8isaac.htm (463 words)

	West Virginia Veterans Memorial - Isaac Wesley Pritt
		Isaac Wesley Pritt was born January 27, 1921 in Bentree, Nicholas County, West Virginia to Wyatt Remley Pritt and Rena Clark Pritt.
		The newlyweds settled near Isaac's family in the Lockwood area, and Isaac was employed as a timber cutter.
		Isaac was inducted into the United States Army at Huntington, West Virginia on September 3, 1942 and began active service on September 17 of that year at Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
	www.wvculture.org /history/wvmemory/vets/tigerbios/prittisaac.html (242 words)

	The real test of the Akedah: blind obedience versus moral choice. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The Akedah, or the binding and near-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, is one of the most difficult Tanakh texts to justify and transmit to new generations.
		Abraham was about to sacrifice the boy on the altar when an angel called out to him to stop, "because now I see that you are a God-fearing person and you would not withhold your son...
		Thus, the added statement that each angel made that Abraham intended to kill Isaac (to justify, first, the order to desist, and, second, the promise of God's blessing), was also defective because, in each case, this observation went beyond the task that the angel was empowered by God to perform.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-13796423.html (4467 words)

	For four generations, a dream comes true - The Boston Globe
		Isaac grew up in the South End, one of two children born to Denise and her husband, a hospital worker who died 11 years ago from diabetes.
		Isaac's older sister moved to Springfield, where she is renting to own a home.
		Isaac, who is superintendent of the Sunday school at Christ Temple Church of Personal Experience in Roxbury, said her faith helped her dream come true this Christmas.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/12/25/for_four_generations_a_dream_comes_true?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (896 words)

	Did Hashem forget?
		The akeidat Yitzchak (sacrifice of Isaac) was a tremendous test of faith which serves as the paradigm of Isaac's greatness.
		It was at his famed sacrifice that Isaac's passivity is most strongly felt which characterizes his whole life and personality.
		Hashem therefore views Isaac as if he actually burned at the altar, since he was willing to give his life even at the very last moment.
	www.tfdixie.com /parshat/behar/010.htm (720 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s READING OPPORTUNITIES Genesis of Ethics: Isaac Unbound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Isaac, the very object of her idolatry, is taken from her completely.
		Isaac at thirty-seven is a mature male, old enough to fight his own battles, or at least join at his father's side as an equal partner.
		At Isaac's birth, when Sarah might have sympathized with Hagar, shared with her the pains of pregnancy, labor, and child-rearing, shared with Hagar the joys of motherhood, laughed with her while watching Ishmael play with baby Isaac--at that moment the rupture was complete.
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/bomonth/oct99_excerpt.shtml (4633 words)

	Will & Grace
		In this Torah portion, buried among Sodom and Gemarra and the near sacrifice of Isaac is an incredibly unusual scene.
		Isaac was to be the 'only son' of Abraham and to carry the tradition of moral goodness that Abraham and Sarah represented to the next generation.
		Isaac was a model of perfection, his greatest test was when he was nearly sacrificed.
	www.tfdixie.com /parshat/vayeira/020.htm (1823 words)

	Wonderfalls (2004 TV series) - The Spiritual Connections
		Anyway, the tribe decides that the god wants virgin girls in sacrifice, and the chief’s daughter decides that she should be the one to surrender to destiny.
		Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East Israel was not unique among the nations of the Ancient Near East in their use of sacrifices and offerings as a means of religious expression.
		After an elaborate ceremony that culminated in the sacrifice of the bull, its hide was dipped in and rubbed with two separate mixtures and then used to cover the kettledrum.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /wonderfalls_spiritual.htm (1069 words)

	Blood, Gender and Power in Christianity and Judaism
		Rather, the sacrifices described in Leviticus 1-7 are means of atonement, of healing the breach in the covenant relationship and reuniting the people in communion with God.
		Sacrifice was believed to be efficacious in restoring a broken relationship, not because blood had magical power in itself, but because God had provided the symbolic means.
		The repudiation of blood sacrifice in the modern Passover Seder and the simultaneous preservation of symbolic elements of it are explored in an essay by Zvi Howard Adelman.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Sacrifice/sacpage2.htm (940 words)

	Abraham (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		He was commanded to go and offer up Isaac, the heir of all the promises, as a sacrifice on one of the mountains of Moriah.
		He proceeded in a spirit of unhesitating obedience to carry out the command; and when about to kill his son, whom he had laid on the altar, his uplifted hand was stopped by the angel of Jehovah.
		The result was that Rebekah, the daughter of Nahor's son Bethuel, became the wife of Isaac (Gen.
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/abraham.html (1733 words)

	[ Nostalghia.com \| The Topics :: Peter Green: Apocalypse and Sacrifice ]
		Alexander's sacrifice is the liberating act of a man seeking a way out of this situation, a man who sees an opportunity of becoming an instrument of human redemption.
		Loss or sacrifice by fire is a motif to be found in particular in The Mirror (the burning house and the burning bush) and in Nostalghia.
		The age of sacrifice came to an end long time ago; and yet, faced with destruction, he is prepared to abandon everything to accomplish the mission of his heart and save his little son and mankind.
	www.ucalgary.ca /%7etstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Green_Sacrifice_Essay.html (6079 words)

	Abraham and the Child of Sacrifice - Isaac or Ishmael? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Isaac was conceived miraculously to a barren mother and a very aged father, with the Quran likewise agreeing (cf.
		Just as Abraham displayed unconditional love for God in his willingness to sacrifice his one and only son, God also gave up his only beloved Son on the cross of cavalry to prove to the world that He is the true source of unconditional, infinite love.
		Thus, Abraham and Isaac were shadows of the things that were to come, pointing to the Father and Son's willingness to sacrifice themselves in the greatest display of love the world has ever seen; the Father's willingness in sacrificing his eternal love, with the Son giving up his own life on behalf of fallen humanity:
	answering-islam.org /Shamoun/sacrifice.htm (4081 words)

	The Christ Church Sermon Archive
		It was a test of Abraham’s faith – in that sacrifice God wasn’t actually demanding that Abraham give him his son (although that’s what Abraham thought at the time); in that command to sacrifice Isaac, God was really demanding that Abraham give him his loyalty and his trust.
		Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac proved to God something that God already knew, showed to Abraham that God had accepted his faith, and reminds us that this is the same faith that God demands of us.
		Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Mach-pelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, the field which Abraham purchased from the Hittites.
	homepage.mac.com /klock/ChristChurch/sermons06/070906.htm (3233 words)

	People of the Bible: Isaac
		Isaac was the promised son born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age.
		Rebekah beside a well and brought her to Canaan to be Isaac's wife.
		Isaac and Rebekah were the parents of twin sons: Esau the elder son, and
	demo.lutherproductions.com /bibletutor/level1/program/start/people/isaac.htm (129 words)

	B-3. Testing (22)
		he story of the near sacrifice of Isaac is one of the most profound tales of the Torah.
		In the larger thematic and theological development of the Abraham cycle, the stage is set for this Elohist account of Isaac's near sacrifice by the birth narrative of Isaac and the subsequent expulsion of Ishmael in chapter 21.
		Using the procedures of form criticism to recover the original setting of the isolated tale, some scholars have suggested that the original intent of this story was to displace child sacrifice as a form of worship and replace it with animal sacrifice.
	www.hope.edu /bandstra/RTOT/CH2/CH2_1B3.HTM (1888 words)

	Ave Maria University - Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal
		This book explores the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice.
		Drawing on Jewish reflection upon the Aqedah (the near-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham in Genesis), as well as on other critical analyses of sacrifice in Scripture, the book shows that communion is not possible without the reconciliation attained by sacrificial self-giving love.
		Following the insights of St Thomas Aquinas, the author argues that all aspects of Eucharistic theology, including metaphysical doctrines such as transubstantiation, depend upon recognizing that communion cannot be separated from its sacrificial context.
	www.aquinas.avemaria.edu /publications.asp (627 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lorenzo
		Trained as sculptor and goldsmith, he designed a trial panel, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1401; Bargello, Florence) for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery.
		Isaac, a prolific and versatile composer, traveled widely in Europe, serving at the courts of Lorenzo de' Medici and Emperor Maximilian I. Among his best-known works is the collection of 99 four-part settings of the proper chants of the mass known as Choralis...
		Though apprenticed to the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, he is not known to have worked in sculpture, and at 18 he was admitted to the painters' guild in Florence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Lorenzo&StartAt=51 (834 words)

	The National Synagogue -
		Either Isaac is not bothered at all by these events, or perhaps, they are the cause of his silence.
		Isaac's quiet, questioning nature, suggests to me that he is aware of what is going on, but he is calm and reserved about how he challenges those things that he doesn't understand.
		Rebecca and Isaac together could accept that true belief in God and love of God is often tested, but it is ultimately worthwhile because of the promises that God made.
	www.ostt.org /divreitorah/chayeisarah5766.shtml (1041 words)

	JTS Torah Commentary, Rosh Hashanah 5767, The Jewish Theological Seminary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There is Hagar in the wilderness, unable to look at what she fears will be her son's imminent death from thirst and starvation — only to have God hear his cry, open her eyes to the water nearby, and promise that Ishmael will become a great nation.
		I confess that I am confounded by the "Binding of Isaac." The fact that we cannot comprehend it is part of the story's point, I think, and certainly one key to its power.
		Abraham and Isaac, Hagar and Ishmael, surely felt that way as they left the scenes of our annual visits with them, children in hand.
	www.jtsa.edu /community/parashah/archives/5767/roshhashanah.shtml (1108 words)

	CELTIC DRUIDISM
		Some remains of executions have been found in the archaeological record, but it is not obvious whether the victims were killed during religious rituals or to carry out the sentence of a court.
		There is one reference to human sacrifice in Celtic literature, but it appears to be a Christian forgery.
		Fortunately for Isaac, they used tape in place of the nails that a tradition says that Martin Luther used at the Wittenberg cathedral.
	www.religioustolerance.org /druid.htm (3151 words)

	JewishJournal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The case was based on the Akedah, in the book of Genesis, otherwise known as the binding of Isaac, in which Abraham takes his son to a mountain and prepares to sacrifice him, only to be stopped by an angel.
		At the trial, the patriarch was defended by attorney and constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky, fresh from an appearance before the Supreme Court.
		The prosecutor was Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor, who at one point during the proceedings wielded a knife in an imitation of the near sacrifice of Isaac.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=9776 (355 words)

	The Yom Kippur Dilemma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In all these sacrifices, the blood (in other words, the death of the animal) was necessary.
		Blood sacrifice is written off as an ancient preoccupation and a primitive notion.
		In this story, God forbids Abraham to sacrifice his son and provides a ram as a substitute for the lad.
	www.jewsforjesus.org /publications/issues/4_4/yomkippur/ - !http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/4_4/yomkippur (3307 words)

	Religion Department's Complete Course Offerings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Topics include sacrifice, vows, festival observance, dietary rules, purity, mourning rites, magic and divination and women in the cult.
		REL 303 The Sacrifice of the Beloved Child in the Bible and its Interpretations
		The biblical tale of the near sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) and its ongoing historical and cultural significance.
	www.wellesley.edu /Religion/David_Bernat/Complete/complete.html (497 words)

	Genesis - OrthodoxWiki
		It then tells of God's call and promise of salvation to Abraham, and the story of Isaac and Jacob, whom God named Israel, ending with the settlement of the twelve tribes of Israel (the families of the twelve sons of Jacob) in Egypt, during the time of Joseph's favor with the Egyptian Pharaoh.
		In traditional Church language, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are called the Patriarchs and are also Forefathers of Christ.
		In spite of the hostility of Abimelech's people, Isaac is fortunate in all his undertakings in that country, especially in digging wells.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Genesis (2950 words)

	The Temple Institute: Messages of the Mount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since our traditional texts consider it to be the most sacred piece of real estate in the world, and since Jewish groups are now visiting it in droves every day, it would behoove us to understand the magic and the mystery of a mountain which seems to hold the key to our eternity.
		I thought of this painful lesson when I accompanied each of my sons to their army posts not long after we made aliya; Abraham and Sarah are all too realistic as prototypes for a nation reborn, and which has now experienced its fifth difficult war in less than six decades.
		The messages of the Temple Mount are the sacredness of sacrifice, the sacredness of life, the sacredness of peace, and the sacredness of humanity.
	www.templeinstitute.org /archive/25-02-05.htm (856 words)

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