Making sense of the sacrifice of Isaac is like wrestling alligators. And its interpretation is made that much harder by the free-floating nature of the story, the subsequent religious influence it has had, and the centuries of interpretation that has grown up around it. Known as “The Akedah” or “The Binding” in the Jewish tradition, the story is celebrated in the Jewish tradition as “the supreme example of self-sacrifice in obedience to God’s will and the symbol of…martyrdom throughout... Read more