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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database
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Philo Of Alexandria,
On Flight And Finding
, 132
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I very greatly wonder at those persons also, I mean at him who is fond of asking questions about what is in the middle between two extremes, and who says, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt Offering?" And also at him who answers, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering," and who afterwards finds what is given as a ransom; "For behold a single ram was caught by his horns in a shrub of Sabec.
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burnt offerings
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
child sacrifice
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Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
isaac, as beloved
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Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
isaac, as legitimate
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
sacrifice of isaac, as binding
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
sacrifice of isaac, literal interpretation of
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
sacrifice of isaac, ram omitted from'
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311
sacrifice of isaac
Birnbaum and Dillon,
Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
(2020)
311