(February 5, 2019 at 10:00 am)Grandizer Wrote: The Quest for Isaac's Wife
Genesis 24
This account is more about Abraham than it is about Isaac (IMO). Abraham wants to make sure his son Isaac gets married to a proper woman, so he sends off his chief servant to go fetch a wife for Isaac from the country where their relatives live. The servant has his struggles at the start but, with the help of God, eventually finds the right woman for Isaac (the woman's name being Rebekah). Isaac and Rebekah meet, and Isaac is thus comforted and finally gets laid.
Although still somewhat readable, the repetitive aspect of the storytelling here can be a little frustrating, and there isn't much romance happening between Isaac and Rebekah. In fact, Isaac doesn't really do much here besides passively receiving his new bride. You'd think there'd be at least one passage in which Isaac (the second Patriarch of Israel) does something memorable. At least Isaac's later son, Jacob, had to work hard for his women.
got to remember love is a modern construct. there was love but of a different type. that of man and wife which far exceeds passion and romance, it is more like a social contract so that isaac could retain his father's lands and holding and increase them, as clans and 'inlaws' where a form of secureity and defense. a bandit would not want to come in the middle of the night an murder and steal from a large family as they could have an army of people tracking you and your's down. pick the right wife here was like the king of england picking the daughter of the king of france to marry his son in brave heart. if isaac had problems then he also had the backing of this well established family in nahor's city.
