But Where Is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac by James Goodman

But Where Is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac James Goodman ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 320
ISBN: 9780805242539
Format: pdf

: imagining the story of Abraham and Isaac /. Sep 15, 2013 - God tells Abraham to bring his son as a sacrifice; Abraham silently treks for 3 days with said son to said sacrifice; Isaac asks where the sacrificial lamb is; Abraham says God will provide; in the end God provides… Even if one thought this was a story of obedience, where is the Abraham of earlier stories who embodied obedience and faithfulness; but who was very at least engaged and questioning? Sep 8, 2013 - But Where Is The Lamb? Beyond anything we imagined God would ever ask of us,. Margolin makes much, for instance, of the foundational story of Abraham, and his near-sacrifice of son Isaac - but this only ends up a kind of non sequitur - and a vaguely insulting one, at that. Imagine the tension and fear that roared through Abraham's heart as he hiked up the mountain and his son said, “Father, we have the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Goodman (Get the Book) For centuries, theologians, philosophers, and others have struggled with the 19 lines of Genesis 22 that Jews call the binding of Isaac and Christians refer to as the sacrifice of Isaac. The story of the Binding of Isaac in Genesis 22 is a superlatively important and deeply troubling part of scripture. Jul 22, 2013 - James Goodman's new book, “But Where is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac by James Goodman. Nov 4, 2013 - So, presently, I am reading: Seyyed Hossein Nasr's The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition; James Goodman's But Where Is the Lamb? Oct 25, 2013 - But where is the lamb? Imaging the Story of Abraham and Isaac; Paul Harding's The Anger of God from his “The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan” series; and Leore Batnitzky's How Judaism Became A Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. Jan 27, 2014 - A small shock wave rippled through theatrical circles in 2010, when Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel abruptly rebuked Deb Margolin, a feminist playwright based at Yale, who had written Wiesel into her Imagining Madoff, a meditation on the notorious Ponzi schemer and his . Feb 7, 2014 - But Where Is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac, By James Goodman, Schocken, 306 pp., $25. Jul 5, 2012 - A uniquely original encounter with one of the most compelling and resonant stories ever told—the story of God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Imagining The Story Of Abraham And Isaac. Dec 11, 2013 - The Story of Abraham and Isaac by James Goodman. Apr 6, 2014 - Talk about stories we've heard again and again, the central story of the Church of our Lord's suffering, death and resurrection was at one time the most shocking of all stories but now – well now we've heard it so much and so often it's become normal and even bland.