Silk Armor Quotes

“(Refresher course I just completed twenty minutes ago: In the Koran, it is Ismail, Abraham’s elder son by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar, whom Sarah gave to Abraham as concubine to bear them a child, that Abraham takes up the mountain with plans to sacrifice. In the Old Testament it’s Isaac, Abraham’s younger son by Sarah herself, Abraham takes up the mountain. In this version Sarah sees Ismail playing with Isaac long before the trip up the mountain, becomes jealous about her own son’s inheritance—even though the whole Hagar-Abraham thing was her idea to begin with—and forces Abraham to send Hagar and Ismail away.)”
― Claire Sydenham, Silk Armor