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Binding of Isaac(Akedah): Differing Viewpoints
Dr Jim Wideman
Presentation at Metro NY Adventist Forum
Oct 22, 2005
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Binding of Isaac(Akedah): Differing Viewpoints
I. Introduction and ChronologyII. Jewish TraditionsIII. Christian CommentaryIV. Islamic InterpretationsV. Modernity and Re-Making of TraditionVI. Visual Representations
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Introduction
• Leon R. Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom: No story in Genesis is as terrible, as powerful, as mysterious, as elusive as this one. It defies easy and confident interpretations, and despite all that I shall have to say about it, it continues to baffle me. Indeed, my approach seems even to me to be too shallow, precisely because I am attempting to be reasonable about this awesome and shocking story.
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Introduction
• What this is not
• What do you remember from childhood about Akedah?
• Do you think Akedah is a foundation myth for you- for contemporary religions?
• What does the word sacrifice mean in 2005?
• Excursus on child sacrifice
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Chronology
• Ancient World• ~2000 BCE• ?• Classical World• 3rd century BCE• 2nd century BCE• 40 CE• 100 CE • ~60 CE• ~ 100 CE
• Abraham• Pentateuch
• Septuagint• Jubilees• Philo died• Josephus died• Paul and letters• Synoptic Gospels
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Chronology
• Rabbinic Texts• ~400 CE
• ~500 CE• ~7th century
• ~8th century
• ~13th century
• Midrash Rabbah on Genesis
• Babylonian Talmud• Midrash Tanhuma(on
Pentateuch)• Pirkei de Rabbi
Eliezer• Book of Jashar—Re-
written Bible genre
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Chronology
• Church Fathers
• Melito of Sardis-----Died 190 CE
• Origen------Born 185 CE
• Augustine of Hippo-----354-430 CE
• Islamic Writings
• Qur’an completed----632/690 CE
• Classical post-Qur’anic writing---~9th cent
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Chronology
• Middle Ages
• Maimonides
• Ephraim of Bonn---Poem for Jewish Martyrs
• Mystery Plays---English
• Rashbam----Jewish Commentator
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Chronology
• Modernity 19th and 20th centuries• Kant---1798• Kierkegaard---1843: Fear and Trembling• Martin Buber--- Critique of Kierkegaard• Franz Kafka---On Abraham• Wilfred Owen---died 1918: Poet of The Great
War• Cristos Valenti---1990 Akedah replayed
• Musical Depictions
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Jewish Traditions
• Book of Jashar, Chapter XXII
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Christian Commentary
• Augustine of Hippo: The City of God, Book XVI, Chapter 31ff
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Islamic Interpretations
• Qur’an, Surah 37:99-113
• Classical Hadith—before 891CE
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Modernity and Re-Making of Tradition
• Franz Kafka: On Abraham
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