Then Abraham said to his young men, ‘Stay here with the donkey the boy and I will go over there we will worship, and then we will come back to you.’Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away. He said to him, ‘Abraham!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ He said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.’ So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac he cut the wood for the burnt-offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him. Here is the passage:Īfter these things God tested Abraham. The work was on the Binding of Isaac: Genesis 22. The following are three monologues I wrote for a Religion, Spirituality and the Arts workshop and presentation sponsored by Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary.
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