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Noc Abrahama Night of Abraham

2021, reworked article

Abstract

Ascending Revelation as Special Biblical Concept of Theodicy By Michal Klinger Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw, Faculty of Theology, Emeritus Faculty Member The study is a reworked part of an author’s article: On the Final Suffering on the Mountain: Abraham - Moses - Job – Messiah, KONTEKSTY (Quarterly on anthropology, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Warsaw, ISSUE 2014/1 (304), p. 86-97 Abstract Famous pericope about the Abraham’s sacrifice on the Moriah Mountains (Gn 22) is exegetically examined on the level of final redaction intentional massage. None “positive” explanation or solution would be applicable to that Text, as already S. Kierkegaard suggested (Fear and Trembling). Night, darkness of faith became the Patriarch’s legacy (Oscura noche…). God’s, as dramatis personae, prompt reaction to the Abraham’s act contrasted strongly with Man’s tragic, consequent silence. That narrative structure we call “ascending revelation”. The same structure we suggest for explaining the encounter between the Lord and innocent suffering of the man, concluding the Book of Job. The Abraham’s sacrifice story seems to agree with the René Girard’s concept of the “sacrificial crisis”; The story’s legacy results at the Jerusalem Temple cult. It provokes the Messianic redemption. On the margin, the junctive formula of the pericope “after those words…” is explained as a “self-conscious textuality” of the Scripture semiotic paradigm.