Jacob and the divine trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle
Record details
- ISBN: 9781575066424 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1575066424 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781575062198
- ISBN: 1575062194
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xiv, 210 p.) - Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2010. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- A trickster oracle : reading Jacob and Esau between Beten and Bethel (Genesis 25-28) -- Divine deception and incipient fulfillment of the ancestral promise (Genesis 29-31) -- Replaying the fool : Esau versus YHWH and Jacob (Genesis 32-35) -- Concluding remarks and prospects for further study. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |