Editor’s note: This piece was originally written by Kathryn Monsewicz during the Spring 2019 semester. It can be read in its entirety here.
“God did tempt Abraham….” reads Genesis 22: 1-18. God ordered Abraham, “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”