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- Title
Akedah as an Actual Sacrifice: Midrash Tanḥuma and Jewish Exegesis, Marc Chagall and Abel Pann.
- Authors
Czekanowska-Gutman, Monika; Mendelsohn, Amitai; Schoenfeld, Devorah
- Abstract
Akedat Yitzhak (The Binding of Isaac) is one of the most powerful and yet horrifying narratives of the Hebrew Bible, describing a sacrifice which was ultimately not performed, as Isaac was not slaughtered. However, over the centuries Jewish exegesis developed a controversial tradition in which Isaac was in fact sacrificed. This paper traces this tradition from Midrashic texts through Hebrew Crusade narratives into works by modern Jewish artists. The latter offer depictions of the divergent interpretation of the Akedah in the context of the Shoah (Marc Chagall) and in the context of Arab-Israeli conflict in the Land of Israel (Abel Pann). Discussing the complex treatment of the actual sacrifice in modern Jewish culture, the paper demonstrates how these artists engaged with an actual sacrifice at different stages of their artistic career as a way of depicting trauma either on the national or personal level.
- Subjects
BIBLICAL commentaries; PANN, Abel; CHAGALL, Marc, 1887-1985; ISAAC (Biblical patriarch); JEWISH art &; symbolism
- Publication
Religion & the Arts, 2022, Vol 26, Issue 5, p660
- ISSN
1079-9265
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15685292-02605005