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4 studies tagged with akedah.

Torah24 min

The Bethel Ladder: Jesus Is the Ladder

Genesis Genesis 28:1-22

Six canonical first-mentions in twenty-two verses. A single Hebrew root holds the ladder, the LORD, and the stone. The Greek of Genesis 28:12 in the Septuagint is the Greek of John 1:51 — with one substitution. Jesus is the ladder.

Torah18 min

Isaac in Gerar: The Sinai Vocabulary Before Sinai and the Triad Seeded at Beersheba

Genesis Genesis 26:1-33

Genesis 26 is the only chapter in the Torah where Isaac is the active patriarch. The famine, the lie at Gerar, the hundredfold harvest, the four wells, the night theophany at Beersheba, and the treaty with Abimelech stage a deliberate replay of Abraham's life. But two verses make this chapter's contribution canonical: Genesis 26:5 (the fullest pre-Sinai cluster of Sinai-legal vocabulary in the canon — four legal nouns stacked together, citing the Akedah-oath) and Genesis 26:24 (the first installment of «I am the God of Abraham your father,» the formula Jesus deploys against the Sadducees and Stephen quotes at his death).

Torah22 min

Isaac and Rebekah: The Akedah Blessing on Aramean Lips and the First Husband-Loves-Wife

Genesis Genesis 24:29-67

Bethuel and Laban speak the Akedah blessing back over Rebekah without knowing what they echo. Isaac brings her into Sarah's tent and loves her in the canon's first husband-loves-wife, and is comforted by a verb that runs forward into Isaiah's promise and the Paraclete.

Torah22 min

The Akedah: The Lexical Seedbed of Substitutionary Atonement

Genesis Genesis 22:1-24

Seven theological terms make their canonical debut inside twenty-four verses; the Septuagint of Genesis 22 becomes the vocabulary the Father speaks at the Jordan, the verb Paul uses at Romans 8:32, the oath Hebrews 6 cites verbatim, and the verse Mary names at the Magnificat as fulfilled in the incarnation.