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@Eetschrijver @gvenema
Trump ist klassische #Patriarch ,schlimm genug.
Seine Frau meinte mal, 'er ist ein warmherziger Mensch.' Das mag sogar sein, auf seine allernächste Familie bezogen, und solange es keine Widerworte gibt.
Ein #Patriarchen kümmert sich. Er ist zu #Empathie grundsätzlich fähig, wenn auch sehr selektiv und mit dem was von der Eigenliebe, #Narzissmus noch übrig bleibt.

"In the new #biography #Abraham: The First #Jew, Anthony Julius makes the case for the #patriarch as the first “self-authored human being.”

As related in #midrash, Abraham was a man who, through his own reason, determined that there was one #God and challenged those around him to think for themselves. But in a twist, Julius, who has been fascinated by the binding of #Isaac since he first encountered it in a comic strip as a boy, argues against Abraham as a unified personality.

If Abraham 1 was a philosopher and iconoclast, his near-death experience in a furnace at the court of #Nimrod transformed him into Abraham 2, the person of pure faith who first appears to us in #Genesis, heeding the orders of God to leave his home behind. Abraham 2’s inner life ends in terror on Mt. #Moriah, when an angel stays his hand during his near-sacrifice of Isaac. There is no Abraham 3 — unless we count us, his descendants, who contain all his multitudes."

forward.com/culture/books/6952

The Forward · The double life of Abraham, from freethinker to pure believerAnthony Julius' biography of Abraham argues for the duality of the first Jew, with one life based in reason and another in pure faith.