I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In ...

He’s important because he prefigures Christ. Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is ...

If Abraham believed that Ishmael would survive the desert, he would believe that Isaac would survive Mt. Moriah. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, his least loved son, left God no ...

More important, Mount Moriah is the site of the “Foundation Stone,” the rock where Abraham tied his son Isaac in the biblical story of the binding of Isaac. Muslims believe the same stone is ...

This is what happens in Genesis 22. God tells Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Abraham proceeds to follow God’s orders bringing Isaac to the “region of Moriah” and “a mountain I will show you.” Today in Jerusalem, that mountain is called Mt. Moriah — an important ...

Abraham obeyed; he took Isaac up a mountain ... new find is not the only ancient document to suggest that Isaac died on Mount Moriah. As Harvard professor Jon Levenson has argued in his book ...

Some rabbis also ask, What really took place on Mt. Moriah? The Bible says Abraham returned from the mountain alone. Where was Isaac? Is it possible, as the ninth-century Jewish text Pirkei de ...