Author: Heide, Albert van.
Title: Now I know': Five centuries of Aqedah Exegesis.
Description: [Cham], Springer International Publishing, [2017]. XVII,504 pp. Orig. hardcover (boards). 8vo. (Amsterdam studies in Jewish philosophy, Vol. 17). - As new.*This book describes how medieval Jewish Bible scholars sought to answer the question of what is meant by the Angel's message from God to Abraham: 'Now I Know', as written in Genesis 22 verse 12. It examines these scholars' comments on the nineteen verses in Genesis that tell the story of Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his own son Isaac, the Aqedat Yi??aq. It explores the answers they found to the question of what, indeed, this story is trying to tell us. Is it a drastic way to condemn the practice of child sacrifice? Does it call for replacing human sacrifices with animal sacrifices? Is it a trial by which the Almighty tests the fidelity of one of His followers? Or is it His way to show the world the nature of true belief? [Back cover].

Keywords: Philosophy Judaïca Theology Bible Filosofie Judaïca Theologie Bijbel