Parallel stories, such as the Genesis tales of wife/sister ploys on the part of Abraghama and Isaac, raise the questions of difference and relationship. Choosing which questions to ask of these texts is a methodological exercise which heightens the challenge of difference, for different questions will elicit different answers from the text. Our awarenss of this challenge and our choice of questions will allow texts to challenge us in our own contexts. These toales told with difference can symbolise the task to be undertaken “again and again and again”.