Now, in Florence’s hour of peril, it was high time that an equally, if not more, dazzling pair should be cast for the north ...

Isaac Dixon, played by the ever-fantastic Jeffrey Wright, cast a long, dark shadow over the conflict between the militaristic WLF and the religious Seraphites. But that’s largely all it was ...

The first steps in the path from Brunelleschi to Bitcoin involved connecting the visual geometry within the rules for perspective to Euclidean geometry, the orderly realm of lines and points that ...

He’s important because he prefigures Christ. Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before ...

Edmund McMillen, the developer behind The Binding of Isaac and co-creator of Super Meat Boy, has issued a statement responding to claims that a website he hosted contained user posts linking to ...

The next tale of sacrifice is that of Abraham, who is clearly – albeit reluctantly – willing to bring his best: his beloved son, Isaac. This it turns out is a test, but still one that brings ...

God could never have expected Abraham to kill Isaac. Others infer that God never asked Abraham to sacrifice his son literally, because God only considers kosher animals fit for offerings ...

The Binding of Isaac feels like this weird remnant of my younger years. It was already a hit upon its original release in 2011, but found a new audience with the 2014 upgrade to The Binding of ...