intended by the narrator. Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible is being “attached” identified as a problem. There is little material on Isaac himself, and less on his relationship to his mother, though the biblical text reveals that Isaac appreciates his mother or at least her actions. Abraham’s servant finds Rebekah as a wife for Isaac and brings her to him (24:66). In the following verse he brings her to the tent of his mother Sarah as his wife (24:67). The verse notes that Isaac loves her, and “he finds