Who is Abraham and Isaac from Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays and what is their importance? "Everyman

The story of Hebrew patriarch Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac is one of the most well known of the Bible, and provides an indelibly powerful example of the intensity of self-sacrifice the Old Testament God demands from those who worship him. The New Testament God, as manifest in the teachings of Jesus, is generally less demanding (and less apparently bloodthirsty), but nonetheless insistent that if souls are to be saved, his path is the only way.