personae the family ahasver* narrator isaac* brother of ahasver rebecca* wife of isaac ruth* wife of ahasver , proselyte simon* son of isaac simon ( father ) * father of ahasver and isaac daniel* son of ahasver the messianics / christians abiram* head of the messianics in arimathea barnabas missionary and companion to saul barnabas , born joseph , was an early christian , one of the earliest christian disciples in jerusalem .