Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is realized in full in Christ. Isaac is the bridge ...

(Reading: Genesis 22:1-19) The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah.

For the Israelis, that history begins 3,000 years ago, when the Temple Mount—believed by many biblical scholars to be the mountain in the region of Moriah mentioned in the Book of Genesis—was ...

The Yale Jewish Lives series, which has volumes devoted to figures as diverse as Harry Houdini and Henrietta Szold, had a conspicuous gap in its library: an account of the first Jewish life.

Temple Mount is built on Mount Moriah, where Abraham would have sacrificed Isaac, subsequently the site of the First and Second Temples, and now containing the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque.

suarez: the biblical story of the sacrifice is well known -- abraham took his son, isaac, to a mountain in a place called the land of moriah, but just as abraham was about to sacrifice his son, an ...

The idea that where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, where the Temple was built, and where Jesus was crucified are all the same place is very tempting, and an attractive and neat theological thread.

The Jews would not have had crucifixions in the sacred temple precincts. Jesus was not crucified on Mount Moriah, but it is enough to say that Golgotha is near Mount Moriah. Conclusions. Where Abraham ...

I’d heard these stories in church, but there was one painting for which I had no narrative context: Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah. Abraham’s skin glowed as he stood tall over his bound son.