Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought book pdf download

Author: Aaron Koller

About the Author: Aaron Koller is professor of Near Eastern studies at Yeshiva University. Aaron has served as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and held research fellowships at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research and the Hartman Institute. 

Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought book pdf download By Aaron Koller

Unbinding Isaac takes readers on a trek of discovery for our times into the binding of Isaac story. Nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard viewed the story as teaching suspension of ethics for the sake of faith, and subsequent Jewish thinkers developed this idea as a cornerstone of their religious worldview. Aaron Koller examines and critiques Kierkegaard’s perspective—and later incarnations of it—on textual, religious, and ethical grounds. He also explores the current of criticism of Abraham in Jewish thought, from ancient poems and midrashim to contemporary Israel narratives, as well as Jewish responses to the Akedah over the generations.

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