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According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

At that era, the Israelite tribes were not yet sedentary.

In the course of looking for grazing areas, they had come in contact in southern Palestine with the inhabitants of the settled countryside.

The biblical historian, A. Jopsen, believes in the connection between the Isaac traditions and the north, and in support of this theory adduces Amos 7: 9 (" the high places of Isaac ").