Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Lad. Gerard Hoet and others, 1728.
This is the moment the test ends. The knife is raised. The angel speaks. The ram appears in the thicket. In the nearly four millennia since, every parent who has feared for a child, and every believer who has wondered whether faith requires the impossible, has returned to this story. Amnon Moalem’s carved wood work captures the instant of reprieve — and in doing so, captures something essential about the nature of the divine relationship.
