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Jacob

Unexpected Patriarch
Zakovitch, Yair (Book - 2012)
Jacob


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Jacob's enthralling life story, with its many vicissitudes and travels between Canaan, Haran, and Egypt, is but one example, albeit rich and clear, of the Bible's method of depicting the history of Israel by way of a series of biographies, a relay race in which figures receive the baton from their predecessors

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Jacob's enthralling life story, with its many vicissitudes and travels between Canaan, Haran, and Egypt, is but one example, albeit rich and clear, of the Bible's method of depicting the history of Israel by way of a series of biographies, a relay race in which figures receive the baton from their predecessors and pass it on to then successors. Book jacket.

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Additional Contributors: Zakovitch, Valerie
Imprint: New Haven [Conn.] : - Yale University Press
Pages: 202
ISBN: 9780300144260, 0300144261
Language: English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 young -- Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning.
Statement of responsibility: Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch
Characteristics: ix, 202 p. :,ill. ;,22 cm.
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