Quote Originally Posted by scbubba View Post
Thanks for bringing this up and earlier reminding me of Isaac's role as patriarch.

Not that I'm buying into the "Kc is going to bring everything back to the Bible" idea of where the show goes, but he does have a thing for meaningful names. And Isaac has pretty definite meaning in Jewish, Islam, and Christian religions.

Isaac had 2 sons, Jacob and Esau. Jacob was given a new name by God - Israel. Israel was the patriarch of God's chosen people, the Israelites. Israel had 12 sons - each becoming the head of one of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Isaac's other son, Esau, was the first born and should have been the more revered of the sons, as such. Two things happened. Esau basically gave away his birthright to his brother for a bowl of stew. Later, an aged and blind Isaac was tricked by Jacob into giving him the paternal blessing instead of Esau. Jacob did this by covering his arm with wool. This tricked Isaac into thinking it was Esau because Esau was known as a very hairy man.

So Isaac, father of 2 sons. One is a real hairy guy and the other had 12 sons who where to start the lineage of God's chosen people.

The rest is left as an exercise for the reader...
Randy Roberts? ... Sounds kinda silly.
But yay, thanks for this. I hadn't even got around to googling Isaac. Definitely interesting. Just makes me even more sure about Dr. Roberts being the father of Ink. Not sure Randy is his brother, though... If that's what you tried to say.
Even though it might not be what Kc's been thinking I still find it interesting to find such parallels.
So... The inklings are both sons of Israel and homies of Jesus...