Jacob : unexpected patriarch / / Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch.
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| Superior document: | Jewish lives |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Physical Description: | ix, 202 p. |
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Table of 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.