Her hair was light gray, soft to the touch, and she had large, black, sensitive eyes that seemed to be sympathizing with him as, gently and sadly, he strapped a saddle onto her back. The donkey he chose was his favorite, a four-year-old female with a docile temperament and endurance like bronze. He didn’t take one of the camels he knew that the land of Moriah was harsh and mountainous and that only the smaller variety of camel, bred by the hill tribes, could manage the trip.

It’s as if someone were to reach out toward the face in the mirror and, with two-dimensional silvered-glass fingers, touch warm flesh.Įarly in the morning Abraham saddled his donkey. In parable, he is a paragon of wisdom but he is a homicidal maniac in fact. In fact, however, the command is obviously demonic and he must refuse. In parable, he must sacrifice his beloved son, even if a substitute should miraculously appear, bleating, within a thicket. “Take your son, your darling, whom you love-Isaac-and go to the land of Moriah, and burn him there as a sacrifice on one of the hills that I will show you.”Ībraham is caught in a dilemma. Here, Stephen Mitchell imagines five different variations on the original. 22) and the Qur’an, remains a foundational parable of human nature. The story of the binding of Isaac, which appears in both the Hebrew Bible (Gen. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman Gift of Dr.

Kadishman has said the only thing of which he was certain was that the person had been sacrificed in the name of war.” Courtesy of the Fred Jones Jr. On patrol, he came across a body so badly decomposed that he was unable to tell if the person was Arab or Israeli. Kadishman’s sculpture “was partly inspired by an experience the artist had while serving as a soldier in his native Israel.

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