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Until now, most scholarship on the figure of Abraham has taken the Binding of Isaac as a point of departure. First, commentators studied the Binding of Isaac, and then, they extended Abraham’s apparent submissiveness to his character in general. We wish to reverse the order: we read the story of Abraham step by step, each verse on its own, as if there were not yet anything afterward. Only now have we reached the Binding of Isaac, coming to this story with the information we have so far absorbed.
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Benyamini, I. (2016). Chapter Thirteen: The Binding of God. In: A Critical Theology of Genesis. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59509-6_15
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