Jacob
Unexpected Patriarch
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2012
224 pages
978-0-300-18897-4 (ISBN)
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11/2012
Yale University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "The children struggled in her womb": The Fight for the Birthright
- 2. "He should cheat me twice? He took my birthright and now he has taken my blessing!": Jacob the Deceiver
- 3. "And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky": Jacob's Dream at Bethel
- 4. "It is not the practice in our place": Wives and Sons, A Mixed Blessing
- 5. "Let me go and I will go to my place and to my land": Jacob's Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom
- 6. "For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed": Jacob's Homebound Encounters
- 7. "Should our sister be treated like a whore?": Jacob in Shechem
- 8. "And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his kin in ripe old age": Deaths in the Family
- 9. "And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was the son of his old age": Priority of the Young
- 10. "Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come": An End, A Beginning
- Conclusion
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- L
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