Since Abraham left his native country “forever” without an intention of returning to “the point of departure” (Lévinas 1986, 348), Sarah accompanied him, and his relationship to her, even if she was subordinate to him, helped define Abraham. Sarah is not simply the immanent other of Abraham’s wandering transcendence; if she stands for immanence at all, then this is an immanence of their common transcendence.
This reflects a relationship of marriage within mission and yet what happens if that marriage is strained by the transcendence of one over the other? While one wants to respond to the call of God to go into the unknown while the other does not?
