Jacob and the Divine Trickster : : A Theology of Deception and Yhwh's Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle / / John E. Anderson.
The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWH's chosen, from whom the entire people Israel derive and for whom they are named. These...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Trickster Oracle: Reading Jacob and Esau between Beten and Bethel (Genesis 25-28)
- 3. Divine Deception and Incipient Fulfillment of the Ancestral Promise (Genesis 29-31)
- 4. Replaying the Fool: Esau versus Yhwh and Jacob (Genesis 32-35)
- 5. Concluding Remarks and Prospects for Further Study
- Bibliography
- Indexes