TY - BOOK AU - Zakovitch,Yair AU - Zakovitch,Valerie TI - Jacob: unexpected patriarch T2 - Jewish lives SN - 9780300188974 AV - BS1235.2 .Z3713 2012 U1 - 222/.11092 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Jacob KW - Bible KW - Genesis, XXXIII, 18-20 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish KW - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 young -- Chapt. 10. Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come: an end, a beginning UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=505960 ER -