Footnotes

1.

Moriah here represents a vision; the word reflects a popular etymology based on the root r’h, to see. This root appears also in Genesis 22:4, 8, and 14. Thus, “to the land of Moriah [seeing]” is parallel to “the land that I will show you” in Genesis 12:1.

Endnotes

1.

Inerrancy, ed. Norman Geisler (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1980), appendix, pp. 493–501.

2.

Hermeneutics, Inerrancy and the Bible, ed. Earl D. Radmacher and Robert D. Preus (Academic Books/Zondervan, 1984), appendixes A and B, pp. 881–904.