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Yesterday in my first year seminar class, we talked about the story\u00a0in which Abraham sets out to sacrifice Isaac. Since first-year university students tend not to have children, I wondered what could be as precious to them as a child would have been to an\u00a0aged patriarch. I jokingly suggested their phones, and the idea for these images was born.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday in my first year seminar class, we talked about the story\u00a0in which Abraham sets out to sacrifice Isaac. Since first-year university students tend not to have children, I wondered what could be as precious to them as a child would have been to an\u00a0aged patriarch. 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