Akedah – Meanings and Interpretations in the Dialogue between Christianity and Judaism

AbstractIn this article, I read the meeting between Abraham and Yahweh as an exemplary story about the contradictory nature of faith and freedom which the divinity gave to human beings, when God asked for the sacrifice of Isaac. This story is exemplary because it has a meaning that is grasped at the intersection between misterium tremendum and misterium fascinans. A short reflection on the issues of the interpreters (Philo of Alexandria, Saint Paul, Origen, Gregory of Nazianz and many others) will reflect the Judaism – Christianity dialogue in its richness and diversity, as a fundamental resource of modern thinking reverberated in the texts of Kierkegaard and Levinas