By Shalom Spiegel,Judah Goldin
“We locate that the tale of Abraham and Isaac rises nearly spontaneously within the brain of 1 new release after another.... continually earlier and current react to and upon one another, and existence is given an order, a coherence, through the subjects which govern the Holy Scriptures and the reinterpretations of these themes.”
—from the creation by way of Judah Goldin
Shalom Spiegel’s vintage examines the full physique of texts, legends, and traditions touching on the Binding of Isaac and weaves them jointly right into a definitive examine of the Akedah as one of many critical occasions in all of human historical past.
Spiegel the following offers the version for exhibiting how legend and historical past have interaction, how the earlier can be made understandable via current occasions, and the way the current may well be understood as a renewal of revelation.
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