Gentle Readers, I need your help. You know how hard it is to know what people know? I expect to be talking to some people about the Abraham and Isaac story, and I don’t know how much people know about it. I know that asking Gentle Readers is not getting a scientific response, but I would like to know. So. Please send me an email (if you don’t know, my email is my nom de blog at the domain dot-org in this URL, or if you are reading this through some aggregator or feed, that domain is kith, as in kin.
Here’s what I want. Just send me a note with one of the following:
A: I don't know anything at all about any Abraham and Isaac story.
B: I’m sure I was told the story when I was a kid, but I don’t remember anything much.
C: I know at least the basic outlines, but I’m not sure about the details.
D: I know the story from Scripture and from religious school, and I remember it pretty well.
E: I have studied the story closely.
If you are willing to answer a few more shortish questions about your knowledge of the story, let me know. I’m looking for immediate and basic knowledge, by the way, so please don’t look the story up or ask your friends or anything like that. If you don’t know the story, fine. That’s good information for me. If you do, fine, that’s good information, too. Oh, and on those lines, please don’t comment with any details about the story, either.
Thanks to those Gentle Readers who help me out, here. I promise not to pester you with constant requests, but this is bugging me.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.
Hello. We’ve not met, but I am a Swat alum and aquaintance of Jed H. I came across a link to your blog and read it for the first time and couldn’t resist the bait. I would say I am very familiar with the Abraham and Isaac story having heard the Akeida read and sermonized every year during the Jewish High Holy Days for as long as I can remember. Due to recent parenthood, I’ve missed it the past few years, but I’m sure, like riding a bicycle, I haven’t forgotten.