The sacrifice of Isaac
Subtitle: the reception of a Biblical story in music
By: Siobhán Dowling Long
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 54.; Bible in the modern world -- 54.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781907534874
Subjects: Songs and music; Sacrifice; Criticism, interpretation; History; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-269) and index.

Discography: p. [270]-271.
Table of contents: title: The Biblical story; title: The reception of Genesis 22 in Christian tradition; title: The Mediaeval mystery plays: Abraham and Isaac; title: The Akedah in Jewish tradition; title: Isaac, a passive victim in seventeenth-century music: Giacomo Carissimi's Historia di Abraham et Isaac; title: Isaac, a type of Christ in eighteenth-century music: Josef Myslivec̆ek's Abramo ed Isacco; title: Isaac, a tragic hero in twentieth-century music: Tales of heroism and murder in two compositions by Benjamin Britten; title: The death of Isaac: a musical retelling by Judith Lang Zaimont.