Isaac and Iphigeneia
Author: Millett, Lord Peter
Source: European Judaism, Volume 40, Number 2, Winter 2007 , pp. 116-131(16)
Abstract:
Two stories, one theme, and three lessons, Greek, Christian and Jewish. In both stories a great national enterprise and a dream of immortality are at stake. But they carry a heavy price. For Euripides, the enterprise is the Trojan war; the dream is the unity of Greece; he tells us that the price is not worth paying. For Christianity it is the hope of salvation; it teaches that God has paid the price on our behalf. For Judaism it is the future of the Jewish people and their God; it teaches that God does not demand that the price be paid in human blood.DOI: 10.3167/ej.2007.400211
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