August 15, 1982

Comment: To get an unusual angle on their story,storytellers sometimes take on the persona of someone in orclose to the event they are describing.

The following look at the story of Abraham's sacrificeof his son Isaac comes from a neighbor who lived in thatregion, a practitioner of religion and life as it wasunderstood by the indigenous inhabitants.

Dramatically, the pastor can read it out loud as if hewere writing it, as I did. Or he can introduce it and letsomeone from the congregation read it.

Genesis 22:1-22

Commentator: Our character telling the story is one ofthe local landowners who has lived in northern Canaan allhis life. He is a good son as well, as you will hear in amoment, for he tells the story of Abraham and Isaac to hisfather.

But even this non-Hebrew cannot…