Jacob : unexpected patriarch

Yair Zakovitch (Författare)

LCCN 2012019478, ISBN 9780300144260 · cloth : alk. paper

utgivning

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012, c2012.

ix, 202 p.

Seriemedlemskap

Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch

Bok

Fysisk resurs · 2 bibliotek

ämne

Jakob, (biblisk patriark), Bibeln. · Moseboken 1, Jacob, (Biblical patriarch), Bible. · Genesis, XXXIII, 18-20--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

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Chap. 1. The children struggled in her womb: the fight for the birthright -- Chapt. 2. He should cheat me twice? he took my birthright and now he has taken my blessing!: Jacob the deceiver -- Chapt. 3. And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky: Jacobs dream at bethel -- Chapt. 4. It is not the practice in our place: wives and sons, a mixed blessing -- Chapt. 5. Let me go and i will go to my place and to my land: Jacobs odyssey from slavery to freedom -- Chapt. 6. For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed: Jacob's homebound encounters -- Chapt. 7. Should our sister be treated like a whore? Jacob in Shechem -- Chapt. 8. And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his kin in ripe old age: deaths in the family Chapt. 9. And israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was the son of his old age: priority of the youngest -- Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning.