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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Sacrifice of Isaac"”.
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, however, audiences easily differentiated …
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Musical perspectives on the Binding of Isaac story in the 20th century: Aharon Harlap and Menachem Zur's Akedat Ytzchak and Steve Reich's The Cave
… are left with questions about the disposition of God, the morals of Abraham, and the nature of faith. This dissertation will examine three compositions from the twentieth century that engage the story of Genesis 22: Aharon Harlap and Menachem Zur’s Akedat Ytzchak (The Sacrifice of Isaac) (1979 …
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A Hermeneutic for the Aqedah Test: A Way beyond Jon Levenson's and Terence Fretheim's Models
<p>Problem</p> <p>The works of Jon Levenson and Terence Fretheim highlight the problem of determining which interpretations of the biblical worlds of meaning around the text are congruent with the text of the Aqedah (also known as the Sacrifice of Isaac, Genesis 22: 1-19) and which should be …