| Description |
ix, 202 p. |
| Series |
Jewish lives |
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Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Bibliography |
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 youngest -- Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Jacob (Biblical patriarch)
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Bible. O.T. Genesis XXXIII, 18-20 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zakovitch, Valerie.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780300144260 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780300188974 (electronic bk.) |
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