Isaac, son of Abraham
- Father
- Children
Citations
- The story of God's commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son.
- Two things seem particularly noteworthy here. First that the author styles Isaac as Abraham's "only begotten son", clearly drawing a parallel with Christ, and second, that Abraham went about to perform the sacrifice because he had faith in God that he was yet powerful unto the fulfilling of his promises, because he was capable of raising Isaac from the dead.
- Multiple apocryphal sources hold that the command to sacrifice Isaac was a trick from Satan.
- The structure for this trick sounds similar to some story structures common in Grimm's Fairy tales. Sometimes these story structures are based on much more ancient oral traditions, but I would want to investigate the possibility that these apocryphal traditions might be affected by medieval interpolations. (The Book of Jasher, for one, certainly seems to have significant medieval interpolations.)
- Discussion of traditions saying that Abraham did sacrifice Isaac, and that Isaac was resurrected.
- Discusses Isaac as a Symbol of Jesus Christ. Goes significantly farther than other treatments I've seen.
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