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Mosaic "Sacrifice of Isaac" – Basilica of San Vitale (547 AD) The Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio (1603), in the Baroque tenebrist manner The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק , romanized: ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaq), or simply "The Binding" (הָעֲקֵידָה , hāʿAqēḏā), is a story from chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
Foot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size. Feet altered by foot binding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.
Heavenly Foot Society, was a Chinese organization against foot binding, founded in 1874. It was the first organization against foot binding in China. It was founded by John Macgowan and his wife, missionaries from the London Missionary Society. It was followed by other Western Christian missionary societies, who incorporated the work against ...
The Sacrifice of Isaac by Paolo Veronese, which simultaneously depicts the angel and the ram at Jehovah-jireh. Location of the binding of Isaac in Genesis In the Book of Genesis , Jehovah-jireh was the location of the binding of Isaac , where Yahweh told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering .
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The Binding of Isaac is a 2011 roguelike action-adventure game designed by independent developers Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl. It was initially released for Microsoft Windows, then ported to OS X and Linux. The game's title and plot are inspired by the Biblical story of the Binding of Isaac. In the game, Isaac's mother receives a message ...
The Tian Zu Hui (Natural Foot Society), was a Chinese organization against foot binding, founded in 1895. It was the first secular mass organization against foot binding in China. It was founded by ten women of different nationalities under the leadership of Alicia Little in Shanghai in 1895.
Abraham and Isaac may refer to: Binding of Isaac, a story in the Abrahamic religions in which God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac; The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac, a fifteenth-century play of unknown authorship; Abraham and Isaac (Goodman play), a 1935 drama by Paul Goodman; Abraham and Isaac, a c. 1544 painting by Titian