Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Bruce Chilton, "Abraham's Curse: The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
Publisher: Doubleday Religion | 2008 | ISBN: 0385520271 | PDF | 272 pages | 6.4 MB

 

In this thought-provoking study, Bard College professor Chilton (Rabbi Jesus) asks how the Abrahamic faiths have understood Genesis 22, the story of the binding of Isaac. All three religions include a strand of interpretation that reads the binding of Isaac as valorizing the sacrifice of human life. Some rabbinic texts, for example, suggest that Abraham did in fact nick Isaac's neck, shedding the boy's blood, and that Isaac offers a model for the necessary readiness for martyrdom.

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