No Deliverance: Abel Pann—the father of the Israeli visual Akedah

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No Deliverance: Abel Pann—the father of the Israeli visual Akedah

Akedah
Abel Pann (1883-1963)
The Five Books of Moses (Complete Portfolio of 47 Original Colour Lithographs)
Color lithograph
Jerusalem: The Palestine Art Publishing Company, 1923
Genesis XXII-9: "And Abraham bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood."
Color lithograph of Abraham laying his son upon the altar
Credit: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania