University Press of America
Pages: 222
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3566-0 • Paperback • October 2006 • $48.99 • (£38.00)
John T. Greene is Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University.
Mishael M. Caspi is Professor of Religion at Bates College.
Part 1 Prolegemenon
Chapter 2 Love Conquers Anger: The Aqedah in Rabbinic Liturgy
Chapter 3 Selected Christian Interpretations of the Aquedat Izhaq
Chapter 4 The Binding of Isaac Between Two Traditions
Chapter 5 The Unbinding and Sacrificing of Isaac: Isaac, Judaism, Israel, Some Poems, and My Life
Chapter 5 Let Us Go Beyond the Binding of Isaac
Chapter 6 The Topos of the "Binding of Isaac" (the Aqedah) in Modern Hebrew Poetry
Chapter 7 The Outcry, The Question and the Silence- Sarah and the Aquedah in theMidrash and the Contemporary Israeli Literature
Chapter 9 The Heritage of theAqedah in A.B. Yehoshura's Mr. Mani