When my son, Howard, was a young boy, he was frightened by the Sunday school telling of the biblical story of Isaac and how, under God’s instructions, Abraham took his son up the mountain where he was to be sacrificed. This image so disturbed him that years later when he became a composer of classical music, he wrote an oratorio for orchestra with children’s choir entitled “The Voice of Isaac.” It presented a retelling of the story from Isaac’s perspective, as Isaac innocently and naively …