Isaac

Through the span of years allotted to Abraham stretched itself out some thirty-five years beyond the point of Isaac's marriage, the record of Abraham's sending forth the servant in quest of a wife for his son, closes his written career. The sacred narrator now directs his attention exclusively to Isaac and his household. With his marriage, Isaac passed from under the tutelage of his father and came to the fore as a dis­tinct social unit in Canaan. How safe it was for him to be thrown on his...