Bible Review

Commentary, on the Torah: Genesis, trans. by C.B. Chavel (NY: Shilo, 1971) p. 513.

Compare the aggadah (homiletic interpretation) that Abraham rushed to kill his son, e.g., Rashi and J.H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (London: Soncino Press, 1938), at Genesis 22:3, compounding the moral problem of the traditional interpretation.

Jerusalem Talmud, Hagigah 1:7; Gerson Cohen, Studies in the Variety of Rabbinic Cultures (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1991) p. 73.

Rashi, commentary on Genesis 24:7; Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 59.

Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Man and Faith in the Modern World, Reflections of the Rav, adapted from the lectures of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Abraham R. Besdin (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989), vol. 2, p. 50, quoting Sifri 313, Ha’azinu.

See Spiegel, The Last Trial, pp. 34–40, in which he discusses midrash on the Shemoneh Esreh prayer concerning the burning up and resurrection of Isaac.

See Joseph Gutmann, “Programmatic Painting in the Dura Synagogue,” in The Dura-Europos Synagogue, ed. Gutmann (Missoula, MT: American Academy of Religion, 1973), pp. 147–150.

Cited and dated by Spiegel, The Last Trail, p. 83, n. 26; also in Davies and Chilton, “The Aqedah,” p.539.