The Ladder of Jacob : : Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children / / James L. Kugel.
Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and...
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Kugel, James L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ladder of Jacob : Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children / James L. Kugel. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2006 1 online resource (280 p.) : 1 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Jacob and the Bible's Ancient Interpreters -- Chapter Two. The Ladder of Jacob -- Chapter Three. The Rape of Dinah, and Simeon and Levi's Revenge -- Chapter Four. Reuben's Sin with Bilhah -- Chapter Five. How Levi Came to Be a Priest -- Chapter Six. Judah and the Trial of Tamar -- Chapter Seven. A Prayer about Jacob and Israel from the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Hebrew Bible Index -- Index of Motifs Studied restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked the men of a nearby city into undergoing circumcision, and then murdered all of them as revenge for the rape of their sister. Judah, the fourth son, had sexual relations with his own daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, jealous of their younger sibling Joseph, the brothers conspired to kill him; they later relented and merely sold him into slavery. These stories presented a particular challenge for ancient biblical interpreters. After all, Jacob's sons were the founders of the nation of Israel and ought to have been models of virtue. In The Ladder of Jacob, renowned biblical scholar James Kugel retraces the steps of ancient biblical interpreters as they struggled with such problems. Kugel reveals how they often fixed on a little detail in the Bible's wording to "deduce" something not openly stated in the narrative. They concluded that Simeon and Levi were justified in killing all the men in a town to avenge the rape of their sister, and that Judah, who slept with his daughter-in-law, was the unfortunate victim of alcoholism. These are among the earliest examples of ancient biblical interpretation (midrash). They are found in retellings of biblical stories that appeared in the closing centuries BCE--in the Book of Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and other noncanonical works. Through careful analysis of these retellings, Kugel is able to reconstruct how ancient interpreters worked. The Ladder of Jacob is an artful, compelling account of the very beginnings of biblical interpretation. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691141237 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400827015 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400827015 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400827015.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Jacob and the Bible's Ancient Interpreters -- Chapter Two. The Ladder of Jacob -- Chapter Three. The Rape of Dinah, and Simeon and Levi's Revenge -- Chapter Four. Reuben's Sin with Bilhah -- Chapter Five. How Levi Came to Be a Priest -- Chapter Six. Judah and the Trial of Tamar -- Chapter Seven. A Prayer about Jacob and Israel from the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Hebrew Bible Index -- Index of Motifs Studied |
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