2 Abraham, The First Man Aware Of His Awareness
and Isaac and finally that of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. No other name was added with the successive generations, although Joseph was given a considerable place in the unfolding of the story of Israel. In the evolution of the people of that first monotheistic tribe there is nothing we can specially consider as essential. The obvious interest in genealogy and in a close accountancy of the generations, may mean something special for this tribe but it does not throw any light on the movement of awareness of awareness when one generation follows the other. Perhaps the maintenance of the contact with such a search, avoiding to lose it and to fall into the ways of the past, were sufficient tasks for this newly constituted human collectivity to work on and form the contents of the history of the Hebrew tribe from Jacob’s offspring installation in Egypt to their “liberation� of Moses.
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