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Jacob : unexpected patriarch / Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch.

by Zakovitch, Yair.

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New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2012.

Jacob (Biblical patriarch)

Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

9780300144260 (cloth : alk. paper) :

0300144261 (cloth : alk. paper)

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

ix, 202 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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

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