Kugel The Ladder of Jacob

Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2701-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kugel, James L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Chapter One: Jacob and the Bible's Ancient Interpreters 1

Chapter Two: The Ladder of Jacob 9

Chapter Three: The Rape of Dinah, and Simeon and Levi's Revenge 36

Chapter Four: Reuben's Sin with Bilhah 81

Chapter Five: How Levi Came to Be a Priest 115

Chapter Six: Judah and the Trial of Tamar 169

Chapter Seven: A Prayer about Jacob and Israel from the Dead Sea Scrolls 186

Notes 223

Subject Index 263

Hebrew Bible Index 271

Index of Motifs Studied 276

Über Autor(innen)

James L. Kugel, formerly Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, is Director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he also serves as Professor of Bible. Kugel is the author of ten books, including The God of Old: Great Poems of the Bible and The Bible as It Was (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and the winner of the Grawemeyer Prize in Religion in 2001). He lives in Jerusalem.