Jacob and the divine trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle /
What role does God play in relation to the deceptions that pervade the Jacob cycle? What has not been investigated is the way God may factor into this deceptive activity. The book of Genesis contains a latent tension: Jacob is both a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family and YHWH...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2011.
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Colección: | Siphrut ;
5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.