God promised Abraham that Isaac would be his heir, yet God asked Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. What did Abraham believe that allowed him to reconcile this divine contradiction?A nice overview of the pre-critical history of interpretation of one of the most theologically difficult passages in the Bible.
A couple of past PaleoJudaica posts on the Aqedah are here and here.
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