Once Upon A Blog

Abraham and Sarah’s life spam are coming to an end. Abraham is given a faraway land to burry his Sarah, her grave is now some sort of a “revisited” space through the following chapters in the Book of Genesis. The range passed through a lovers pick up in a well, how Isaac inherits all of what once belonged to his father, the death of Abraham, the deceit of Isaac, among others.

Nevertheless the particular story that caught my interest is the one where the servant picks up Rebekah and she being her kind and gracious self, offers food and stay for the tired servant. Then after her humble hospitality she is taken away by the servant to meet Isaac to whom she is to spend the rest of her life with. The story is itself a bit of a cliché, someone just knows this person is right for you is a recurrent idea in almost all love movies. Just leave aside some of the drama and you have yourself a biblical text.

The idea that the cliché of love at first sight can be ridiculed to the idea that holy Abraham and other important main characters can have millions of concubines and “casual sex” for child making is funny. And even though it might not be as obvious the idea of hiding your lover as your sister to protect her, could be categorized under a cliché as well. But maybe if you think about it, the idea that this text was a relatively old text in comparison to today’s stories does not make it a cliché at all.

Basically what one could say is that since it could be the origin to some of the several clichés that would appear later on, it is not a cliché, but the founder of such.

Again when you see the impostor of a brother setting in as the other to get the father’s blessing. The idea of pretending to be someone else is a theme of duel and confrontation today and in most popular movies, books, or character stories this duality is found.

Take for instance the following moment:

This leaves an open question, is the bible a source for today’s clichés?