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The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed to have "their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience". [47] The Cambridge Companion to the Bible makes the following comment on the biblical stories of the patriarchs:
The Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio (1603), in the Baroque tenebrist manner. The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק , romanized: ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaq), or simply "The Binding" (הָעֲקֵידָה , hāʿAqēḏā), is a story from chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
The patriarchs of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as the patriarchs, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age. They play significant roles in Hebrew scripture during ...
Esau [a] is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis [3] and by the prophets Obadiah [4] and Malachi. [5] The Christian New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans [6] and in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
The Testament of Isaac is a work now regarded as part of the Old Testament apocrypha. It is often treated as one of a trio of very similar works, the other two of which are the Testament of Abraham and Testament of Jacob , though there is no reason to assume that they were originally a single work.
The biblical Book of Genesis speaks of the relationship between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebekah. The story focuses on Esau's loss of his birthright to Jacob and the conflict that ensued between their descendant nations because of Jacob's deception of their aged and blind father, Isaac, in order to receive Esau's ...
Rebecca [a] (/ r ɪ ˈ b ɛ k ə /) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. [3] Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother ...
Isaac and Abimelech Swear Friendship. This occurred at Beersheba. Abimelech then orders that Rebekah be left alone by the denizens of Gerar, on pain of death. Isaac goes on to spend a year in the area, and becomes wealthy, leading the Philistines in Gerar to envy him, so Abimelech sends Isaac away.