Jacob
Subtitle: unexpected patriarch
By: Yair Zakovitch ; translated from the Hebrew by Valerie Zakovitch
Contributors: Zakovitch, Valerie
Series: Jewish lives
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780300144260
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Bible
Work titles: Ṿa-yavo Yaʻaḳov Shalem
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chap. 1. The children struggled in her womb: the fight for the birthright; title: Chapt. 2. He should cheat me twice? he took my birthright and now he has taken my blessing!: Jacob the deceiver; title: Chapt. 3. And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky: Jacobs dream at bethel; title: Chapt. 4. It is not the practice in our place: wives and sons, a mixed blessing; title: Chapt. 5. Let me go and i will go to my place and to my land: Jacobs odyssey from slavery to freedom; title: Chapt. 6. For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed: Jacob's homebound encounters; title: Chapt. 7. Should our sister be treated like a whore? Jacob in Shechem; title: 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; title: Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning.