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Did Isaac exist

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A:It is accepted among scholars that Isaac and the other two Patriarchs were not real, historical people, and the stories written about them in Genesis are not historically true. For example, just as Abraham tried to pass Sarah off as his sister while visiting the palace of Abimelech king of Gerar, so did Isaac, his son, try to pass his wife Rebekah off as his sister to the same king, once again for fear that the king would kill him in order to have sex with her (Genesis 26:6-11). This implausible repetition militates against the existence of Isaac.

The story in The Bible says that Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. The story recognises that these were improbable ages, saying that Abraham laughed when God told him that he would have a son at such a great age. They are also nice, round numbers because the tradents who passed these stories down orally into the first millennium BCE generally used numbers that were easy to remember. The name Isaac, meaning 'He laughs' and a reference to Abraham laughing when told that Isaac would be born, was more likely another prompt so that the tradents could easily associate the correct names with the storylines. If there had been an Isaac, his name was changed to suit the story-tellers.

Even Isaac's age when he died is a giveaway, as are the ages of Abraham and Jacob. Not just because they were so impossibly great, but because they point to the secret use of numerology based on the number 17:

  1. Abraham lived to 175 (5 X 5 X 7)
  2. Isaac lived to 180 (6 X 6 X 5)
  3. Jacob lived to 147 (7 X 7 X 3
  • Each lifespan involves a perfect square (5, 6, then 7 in a numeric series),
  • the third factor also forms a series (7, 5, 3)
  • in each case the sum of the factors is 17.

Finally, if the Patriarchs lived, then the Israelites should have sojourned in Egypt just as the Bible says, but there is no evidence of this in the Egyptian records. If Moses did not live then it is also likely that Isaac did not live. For Moses to have lived, there would have to have been an Exodus from slavery in Egypt and a military conquest of the land of the Canaanites. Not only do almost all scholars say there was no biblical Exodus from Egypt and that there was no unified conquest of the Canaanites, they say that the Hebrew people were really Canaanites who left the region of the rich coastal cities to settle in the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. There was no biblical Moses and there was no Hebrew Patriarch called Isaac.

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According to God, yes:

Matthew 22:32New King James Version (NKJV)

32 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

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