Is There Brawn in Gilead?: The Figure of Esau in the East

Characters in the ancestor narratives of Genesis, and especially in the Jacob cycle, are often modeled on the places and peoples that are thought to descend from them. Both Esau and Jacob, as national progenitors of Edom and Israel, occupy similar spaces to their later polities, and behave in simila...

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Main Author: Elliott, Spencer J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2024, Volume: 86, Issue: 3, Pages: 450-468
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Esau, Biblical person / Jacob / Israelites / Edomites / Edom (Landscape) / Israel
IxTheo Classification:BC Ancient Orient; religion
HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
TB Antiquity
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
Further subjects:B Transjordan
B Esau
B Genesis 32–33
B Shasu
B Edom
B Jacob
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