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Author:
Zakovitch, Yair.
Title:
Jacob : unexpected patriarch / Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
ix, 202 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Bible.--Genesis XXXIII, 18-20--Genesis XXXIII, 18-20--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Jacob--(Biblical patriarch)
Notes:
Includes 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 youngest -- Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning.
Series:
Jewish lives
ISBN:
0300144261
9780300144260 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)785864776
LCCN:
2012019478
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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