The Book of Genesis 25.19-36.43

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S1E116: Introduction to the Jacob story (Genesis 25.19-35.22)

Some issues to consider in engaging the Jacob story (PDF)

Reading times for the Jacob story (PDF)

Shape of the Jacob story (PDF)

Genesis 25.19-35.22 chiasm (PDF, from Fishbane)

Jacob story map (PDF)

S1E117: Two nations are in your womb (Genesis 25.19-23)

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S1E118: Man of the fields, man of the tents (Genesis 25.24-28)

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S1E119: Birthright and "red stuff" (Genesis 25.29-34)

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S1E120: Introduction to Genesis 26.1-33

Genesis 21.22-34 and 26.3-6, 12-33 (PDF)

Genesis 26 keywords (PDF)

Patriarch timeline (PDF)

Genesis 26 and 1 Samuel 29 (PDF)

S1E121: YHWH appears to Isaac (Genesis 26.1-6)

Genesis 22.15-19 and 26.1-6 compared (PDF)

S1E122: "She is my sister," yet again (Genesis 26.7-11)

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S1E123: Isaac the farmer (Genesis 26.12-17)

Abra(ha)m and Isaac early parallels (PDF)

S1E124: Contending over water (Genesis 26.18-25)

Genesis 12.8 and 26.22a, 25 (PDF)

Genesis 26 chiasms (PDF)

S1E125: A covenant of mutual nonviolence (Genesis 26.26-33)

Genesis 21.22-32 and 26.26-33 (PDF)

S1E126: The blessing: introduction to Genesis 26.34-28.9

Genesis 26.34-28.9 shape and keywords (PDF)

Parallels between Genesis 26.34-28.9 and 1 Kings 1 (PDF)

Questionable assumptions to be addressed in the story of the blessing (PDF)

A few scholarly thoughts in the context of the blessing story (PDF)

Is Isaac a “weak” character? (PDF)

Genesis 25-28 structure and themes (PDF)

S1E127: Esau's women (Genesis 26.34-35; 28.8-9)

Esau’s women (PDF)

S1E128: Isaac sends Esau to hunt (Genesis 27.1-4)

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S1E129: Bring me two choice kids (Genesis 27.5-10)

“Listening to the voice” in Genesis (PDF)

Isaac’s and Rebekah’s commands compared (Genesis 27.1-4 and 27.5-10, PDF)

S1E130: Making goat stew for Isaac (Genesis 27.11-17)

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S1E131: Jacob plays Esau (Genesis 27.18-25)

Genesis 27.17-19 and 27.31-32 compared (PDF)

Isaac’s five senses tested by Jacob (PDF)

S1E132: Isaac blesses Jacob-as-Esau (Genesis 27.26-29)

Genesis 27.28-29 and 27.39-40 compared (PDF)

“Blessing” [Heb, brk] in Genesis outside ch. 27 (PDF)

S1E133: "Bless me, me also, father!" (Genesis 27.30-35)

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S1E134: Have you only one blessing, father? (Genesis 27.36-41)

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S1E135: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran! (Genesis 27.42-46)

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S1E136: Isaac sent Jacob away (Genesis 28.1-5)

Genesis 17.1-8 and 28.3-4 compared (PDF)

S1E137: Jacob/Israel in exile: introduction to Genesis 28.10-31.55

Reading Genesis 28.10-31.55: interpretive foci (PDF)

Genesis 28.10-31.55: structure and themes (PDF)

Laban and his daughters: an allegory of monarchy and exile (PDF)

Jacob and the wife-sister stories (PDF)

Bethel in Genesis and beyond (PDF)

Language of women’s relationships to men in Genesis 29-31 (PDF)

S1E138: Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.11-15)

Genesis 28.10-22 keywords (PDF)

Night, sleep and dreams in Genesis 28-31 (PDF)

YHWH’s promises to Jacob and echoes of earlier promises (PDF)

Matthew Michael’s chart on Babel (Gen 11) and Bethel (Gen 28) (JPG)

S1E139: Jacob called the name of the place, Bethel (Genesis 28.16-22)

Bethel in Genesis and beyond (PDF)

Jacob’s “place” naming in Genesis (PDF)

S1E140: Jacob encounters the shepherds of Haran (Genesis 29.1-6)

“East” in Genesis (PDF)

Genesis 29 keywords (PDF)

S1E141: Jacob meets Rachel (Genesis 29.7-12)

“Preoccupied Territory” piece on Jacob violating the shepherds’ union rules (JPG)

S1E142: Jacob and Laban negotiate over Rachel (Genesis 29.13-19)

Aspects of the Mesopotamian moon god, Sin, in relation to Genesis 29-31 (PDF)

S1E143: When morning came, behold, it was Leah! (Genesis 29.20-30)

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S1E144: Leah bears four sons (Genesis 29.31-35)

Genesis 29.31-30.24 keywords (PDF)

Exilic/post-exilic questions implicit in Genesis 29.31-30.24 (PDF)

Twelve tribes of Israel in Genesis and beyond (PDF)

“Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” from Genesis to 2 Kings (Table 7 from COMP; JPG)

S1E145: "Give me sons or I'll die!" (Genesis 30.1-13)

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S1E146: Hiring Jacob for mandrakes (Genesis 30.14-24)

Language of sexuality in Genesis (PDF)

US Forest Service page on “mandrakes” (JPG)

S1E147: "Give me my women and children!" (Genesis 30.25-34)

Genesis 30.25-31.18 key/rarewords (PDF)

S1E148: Jacob un-Labans the goats and sheep (Genesis 30.35-43)

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S1E149: "Return to the land of your ancestors" (Genesis 31.1-13)

Divine calls to return to the land in the Bible (PDF)

Jacob’s argument in Genesis 31.5-13 (PDF)

S1E150: "Are we not regarded by him as foreigners?" (Genesis 31.14-18)

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S1E151: Jacob steals Laban's heart (Genesis 31.19-24)

Genesis 31.19-55 keywords (PDF)

S1E152: "Why did you steal my gods?" (Genesis 31.25-30)

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S1E153: The way of women (Genesis 31.31-35)

1 Samuel 19.13-18 and teraphim (PDF)

S1E154: Jacob brings charges against Laban (Genesis 31.36-42)

Jacob’s argument to Laban in Genesis 31.36-42 (PDF)

S1E155: Jacob and Laban cut a covenant (Genesis 31.43-55)

“Cut a covenant” in Genesis (PDF)

S1E156: Jacob sends messengers to Esau (Genesis 32.1-6)

Genesis 32 keywords and chiasms (PDF)

Wordplays in Genesis 32-33 (PDF)

S1E157: Terrified, Jacob turns to prayer (Genesis 32.7-12)

Jacob’s prayer in Genesis 32.9-12 and earlier echoes (PDF)

Correspondences between Jacob/Esau and David/Edom (PDF)

S1E158: Jacob prepares to "face" Esau (Genesis 32.13-23)

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S1E159: A little night wrestling (Genesis 32.24-32)

Some interpretative issues in Genesis 32.24-32 (PDF)

Options for the identity of the wrestler in Genesis 32.24-32 (PDF)

S1E160: Reunion? (Genesis 33.1-7)

Genesis 33 keywords (PDF)

S1E161: To see your face is like seeing the face of God (Genesis 33.8-11)

Genesis 33.8-11 intratextual echoes (PDF)

S1E162: The brothers each go their own way (Genesis 33.12-17)

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