There are versions in which Isaac’s mother, Sarah, stops the sacrifice, and versions in which Isaac runs away. Bob Dylan’s Abraham thinks God is putting him on. He isn’t, but Woody Allen’s ...

Just as Abraham signs a pact with the king Avimelech, so does Isaac. And just as Abraham passes off his wife, Sarah, as his sister ... making an idol or “graven image,” murder, adultery ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being ... Whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. For through Isaac shall your seed be named ...

After all, Isaac was not really the “only son” of Abraham – the patriarch himself had responded to God’s guarantee that he would sire an heir with Sarah with the almost dismissive ...

In case of abuse, In a scant 19 lines, Genesis Chapter 22 tells us that God instructed Abraham ... And Sarah took the wood for the offering and loaded it onto Isaac, her son.

Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...