Reading Sacred Scripture is never a finished task. Interpretations of texts in ancient Hebrew—a language so rich with nuance and complexity—will continue to multiply. Marmorini's attempt in this essay on Isaac deserves serious attention. Among the patriarchs with whom Yahweh established his covenant—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—Isaac remains the most elusive. He is surrounded by silences and absences, by behaviors that are difficult, sometimes frankly impossible, to understand. Marmorini asks: might we recognize in Isaac the imperfection of intellectual disability? And what role might such imperfection play in God's "perfect" design? The author leads us with fresh insight to that mountain of sacrifice, building an emotional crescendo that does not shy away from the profound questions that disability raises for every human being, in every age.
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