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Abraham's Well visitors center, Beersheba. According to the Hebrew Bible, Abraham's well was seized by Abimelech's men (Genesis 21:25), and Isaac’s servants also dug a well at Beersheba (Genesis 26:25). The well is near the Old City of Beersheba and a wadi, Nahal Be'er Sheva, on the road to Neve Noy. It was described by Edward Robinson in ...
The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac. The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac (also known as The Brome “Abraham and Isaac”, The Brome Abraham, and The Sacrifice of Isaac) is a fifteenth-century play of unknown authorship, written in an East Anglian dialect [1] of Middle English, which dramatises the story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac .
The Binding of Isaac ( Biblical Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק ), or simply " The Binding " ( הָעֲקֵידָה, hāʿAqēḏā ), is a story from chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham begins to comply, having bound ...
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Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51, is a composition for tenor, alto and piano by Benjamin Britten, part of his series of five Canticles. Commissioned to be performed as a fundraiser for the English Opera Group, it sets the story of Abraham and Isaac from the Chester Mystery Plays. Britten assigned the tenor voice of Peter Pears to Abraham ...
Budget. $1,683,000 (estimated) [1] [2] Box office. $3,000,000 (US rentals) [3] Without Reservations is a 1946 RKO Radio Pictures American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claudette Colbert, John Wayne and Don DeFore. The film was adapted by Andrew Solt from the novel Thanks, God! I'll Take It From Here by Jane Allen and Mae ...
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor. Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor is a humour book written by Isaac Asimov consisting of and subtitled as "A lifetime collection of favorite jokes, anecdotes, and limericks with copious notes on how to tell them and why". Isaac Asimov wrote more than 500 books over the course of his career.
Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ( Latin for John of the Silence ). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, which says to “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”.