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Akedah biblical account of God commanding Abraham’s offerings. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 17] See : Sacrifice How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The final way of seeing Pangle's position and its problems is in his final chapter entitled "Kierkegaard's Challenge," a confrontation with Kierkegaard's account of the binding of Isaac as presented in Fear and Trembling. Such images are the foundation stones of the Bible: the binding of Isaac, the prophets' equation of idolatry with adultery, the New Testament's "this is my body, this is my blood. Having failed to find either in religion or in psychoanalysis any real support for her thesis that the binding of Isaac is the root of all patriarchal evil, she resorts in her final section, "The Social Legacy," to straightforward unsubstantiated assertion: Her "purpose is not to show that religion is essentially or primarily about abuse. |
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