Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... But Where is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac ISBN:0805242538 Author:Goodman, James Publisher:Schocken Release Date:2013 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Used: Excellent Sku: 2344883 Notes: First edition. Tiny smudge on front jacket panel, otherwise an excellent copy. 2013 Hard Cover. 306 pp. A mere nineteen lines in the book of Genesis, it rests at the heart of the history, literature, theology, and sacred rituals of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For more than two millennia, people throughout the world have grappled with the troubling questions about sacrifice, authority, obedience, and faith to which the story gives rise. Writing from the vantage of “a reader, a son, a Jew, a father, a skeptic, a historian, a lover of stories, and a writer,” Goodman gives us an enthralling narrative history that moves from its biblical origins to its place in the cultures and faiths of our time. He introduces us to the commentary of Second Temple sages, rabbis and priests of the late antiquity, and early Islamic exegetes (some of whom imagined that Ishmael was the nearly sacrificed son). He examines Syriac hymns (in which Sarah stars), Hebrew chronicles of the First Crusade (in which Isaac often dies), and medieval English mystery plays. He looks at the art of Europe's golden age, the philosophy of Kant and Kierkegaard, and the panoply of twentieth-century interpretation, sacred and profane, including the work of Bob Dylan, Elie Wiesel, and A. B. Yehoshua. In illuminating how so many others have understood this story, Goodman tells a gripping and provocative story of his own. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: But Where Is the Lamb? : Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Biblical Commentary / Old Testament, Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Biblical Studies / Old Testament, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 1.2 in
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 16.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: James Goodman
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
