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The History of God
FIELD No. C898
Visual depiction of Genesis 22

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 22

Abraham's hand raised with the knife above the altar

the Angel of YHWH calling from heaven to stop the sacrifice at the last possible moment

Organization
Hebrew Bible Theophanies
Time period
Bronze Age – Iron Age (mythic / Genesis–Kings narrative)
Location
Levant / Ancient Near East

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Biblical Scenes (Genesis–Kings I) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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