409 "Fear and Trembling" (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) by Soren Kierkegaard
The History of Literature
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Anxiety in Abraham
In our compressed narrative, we don't know what he thinks or what he says. We think there must be anxiety because the stakes are so high. This is isaac, the golden child. Decades of longing by abraham and his beloved sarah have finally culminated in this boy. But there's no fear and bling in the story. The phrase comes from elsewhere in the bible. We will explore that and see why it actually does apply in kirkegard's analysis of the story. After this, susan, i'm sorry i'm late. Traffic is terrible.
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