RT Article
T1 “For Your Work Will Be Rewarded”: On the Development of the Sign Tradition
JF Hebrew Union College annual
VO 91
SP 77
OP 126
A1 Elitzur, Bracha
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1786299593
AB The framework of the biblical story describing the switching of Jacob's wife Rachel for her older sister Leah by their father on the wedding night (Gen 29:21-25) does not specify the practical conditions that made the duplicitous act possible. Although the deceit is carried out at the sensitive moment the spouses were in the midst of a highly intimate act, no suspicion arises in the mind of the deceived Jacob until sunrise. Radak (David Kimḥi, 1160-1235, Southern France), in his commentary on the verse describing the exposure of the deceit (Gen 29:25), explains: “He did not recognize her until morning, as we have already explained; and the aggadic explanation according to which Rachel gave her [Leah] signs [to disguise her identity by imitating Rachel] is well known.”
DO 10.15650/hebruniocollannu.91.2020.0077