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ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM) , the only child of Abraham and Sarah, was born when his parents were respectively a hundred and ninety years of age (Gen. xvii. 17). Like his father, Isaac lived a nomadic pastoral
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Israel " by Amos (vii. 9, 16), who also bears witness to the importance of Beersheba as a sanctuary. It was in this district
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Isaac is by general consent of the Christian church taken as a representative of the unobtrusive, restful, piously contemplative type of human character. By later Judaism, which fixed its attention chiefly on the altar scene, he was regarded as the pattern and prototype of all martyrs. The Mahommedan legends regarding him are curious, but trifling. The resemblance between incidents in the lives of Isaac and Abraham is noteworthy; in each case Isaac appears to be the more original
Ishmael correspond to Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Esau. On general questions, see E. Meyer, Israelilen (Index, s.v.). For attempts to find a mythological interpretation of Isaac's life, see Goldziher
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