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ova Hartman and Charlie
Buckholtz in Are You Not
a Man of God? (Oxford
University Press) have taken two
stories from the Bible, two from the
Talmud and one from Greek litera-
ture, stories that we all know—or
that we think we know—and shown
us how to read them in a fresh and
radical way.
The authors begin their recently
released book with two stories that
seem to mirror each other: the story
of Iphigenia by the Greek trage-
dian Euripides and the story of the
Binding of Isaac (which is detailed in
the Torah portion of the second day
of Rosh Hashanah).
The two stories raise the same
moral issue, an issue that parents
encounter in every generation: What
do you do when you are caught
between what the Supreme Authority
commands of you and what your
love for your own flesh and blood
commands?
Not only every zealot who sends

his child out to die as a martyr, but
every parent who sends his child off
to war for his country knows this
tension. On the surface, the child in
both stories — Iphigenia and Isaac
— seems to accept the command of
the father and go along with it pas-
sively.
But commentators on both stories
discover what the authors of this
book call "devotional resistance" hid-
den inside the narratives.
They claim that the "support-
ing actors" challenge the fathers by
reminding them of the covenant
of love, which they say is as sacred
as the covenant with the Supreme
Authority.
Neither Iphigenia nor Isaac can
explicitly refuse to obey their fathers
because that would put the children
outside the boundaries of their
culture. But they undermine their
fathers' authority in subtle ways that
are easy to overlook in these stories
— unless you read them very care-
fully.
When Iphigenia fails to persuade
her father to change his mind, she
gives in but instructs her mother not
to mourn for her, and not even to