{"id":24798,"date":"2014-06-22T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=24798"},"modified":"2014-06-22T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T22:22:24","slug":"abraham-and-isaac-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/06\/abraham-and-isaac-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Abraham and Isaac Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>As you will gather from the video above, the title of this post indicates not that these two patriarchs live, but that the video is a live performance of Benjamin Britten\u2019s canticle \u201cAbraham and Isaac.\u201d See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meafar.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/the-binding-of-isaac.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Macdonald\u2019s blog<\/a>\u00a0for another performance, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/program\/children-abraham\/feature\/canticle-ii-abraham-and-isaac-op-51\/2129\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the text that Britten set here<\/a>.<\/p>\nOf related interest (since the story is one of many that depicts God in a troubling manner), here\u2019s a meme that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tillhecomes.org\/bible-more-violent-than-video-games\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeremy Myers shared<\/a>:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24801\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/06\/Bible-is-violent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As you will gather from the video above, the title of this post indicates not that these two patriarchs live, but that the video is a live performance of Benjamin Britten\u2019s canticle \u201cAbraham and Isaac.\u201d See\u00a0Bob Macdonald\u2019s blog\u00a0for another performance, and the text that Britten set here. Of related interest (since the story is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":24801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,63],"tags":[298,456,1106,5398],"class_list":["post-24798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genesis-bible","category-music","tag-abraham","tag-akedah","tag-benjamin-britten","tag-isaac"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Abraham and Isaac Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As you will gather from the video above, the title of this post indicates not that these two patriarchs live, but that the video is a live performance of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/06\/abraham-and-isaac-live.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abraham and Isaac Live\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As you will gather from the video above, the title of this post indicates not that these two patriarchs live, but that the video is a live performance of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/06\/abraham-and-isaac-live.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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