The Aqedah (Genesis 22)

Abstract

"For millennia, Bible scholars, both Jewish and Christian, have exerted themselves at the task of interpreting Genesis 22, the Aqedah.1 This article will revisit these interpretations and then proceed to answer the question: What was the author doing with what he was saying in Genesis 22? The goal here is to provide the preacher with an interpretation of the account that may be fruitfully employed in the pulpit to change lives in the pews for the glory of God"