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58. Genesis 22:7.


59. Genesis 22:8.


60. Bereshit Rabba (Albeck edition) 56:4.


61. Sanhedrin 89b; Bereshit Rabba (Wilna and Mantova) 56:8; Lekach-Tov (=Pesikta
    Sutarta), ed. S. Baber (Wilna, 1880), Genesis 22:6 (Hebrew); Tanhuma (Mantova, 1563;
    reprint, Makor ed., Jerusalem, 1970), the portion of Vayera, on the phrase “Some time
    afterwards.”


62. Genesis 22:16–18.


63. Kaltner, Ishmael Instructs Isaac, 123.


64. Genesis 22:15–18.


65. Ya ̔qubi, Ta’rikh, 1 (Leiden, 1969) 1:25.


66. Tabari, Ta’rikh: 294–301.


67. Geiger, Judaism and Islam, 103.


68. Firestone, “Isaac,” 561–62.


69. Firestone, “Merits,” 93–112.


70. H. Z. Hirschberg, “The Torah Stories in Ancient Arabia,” Sinai 18 (1946): 163–81
    (Hebrew).


71. N. A. Newman, Muhammad, the Qur’ān, and Islam (Hatfield, Pa.: Interdisciplin-
    ary Biblical Research Institute, 1996), 365.


72. Cf. C. C. Torrey, The Jewish Foundation of Islam (New York: Jewish Institute of
    Religion Press, 1933), 90.