The study of involuntary migration as a hermeneutical guide for reading the Jacob narrative
The patriarch Jacob is an involuntary migrant. Jacob lives as an asylum seeker from Esau’s threat of violence and then as a refugee under Laban’s protection. Eventually, Jacob returns ‘home’ to Canaan, but he finds there a society totally different than the one he remembers or imagines. Jacob resemb...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 485-498 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Hospitality
B Migration B Genesis B Jacob |
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