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Subject(s)

• Bible Old Testament Genesis XXXIII, 18-20—Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish [Browse]
• Jacob (Biblical patriarch) [Browse]

Related name

• Zakovitch, Valerie [Browse]

Series

• Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) [More in this series]
• Jewish lives

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9780300144260 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300144261 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012019478

OCLC

785864776

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