Мората на Морија: херменевтика на гротескното искушение
The Moriah Nightmare: Hermenautics of the Grotesque Temptation

Summary/Abstract: Several years ago, around 1998, I wrote a poem entitled ‘Temptation’, with a motto taken over from the Old Testament, the First Book of Moses (Genesis) 22:7: “My Father: and he said, Here am I my son. And he said, Behold the fi re and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”1 In that poem I poetically interpreted God’s attempt to test Abraham’s loyalty by putting him in a position to choose between Him – God and his own child, his son Isaac. God Almighty puts Abraham in a grotesque position to give up his son, to forsake his dearest and, which is more, to destroy his dearest, to put him to death, slay him, kill him and burn him with the excuse of (ritual?) sacrifice. The reason for such a sacrifice is God Almighty’s capricious wish to test Abraham’s loyalty to Him, the supreme father, to the law of God. To prove that his loyalty to God is greater and more important than his love for his own child, god-fearing Abraham sets forth on an agonising journey to the land of Moriah, to the woods of temptation, the nightmare of humankind, where he builds the pyre upon which to lay his own son instead of a lamb or like a lamb, and put him to death.[...]

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