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Akedah

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Akedah
biblical account of God commanding Abraham’s offerings. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 17]
See : Sacrifice


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Bob Dylan summarized the Akedah in a single line: "God said to Abraham, kill me a son.
That a man killed his daughter and used Abraham as an excuse is not anomalous but the typical enactment of the cultural script created by the Akedah as "foundation story" for Western patriarchy.
Another midrash suggests that Isaac, after the story of the Akedah (Genesis 22), travels to lsmael and Hagar and returns both of them to Abraham's house.
 
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