Jacob and the divine trickster: a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle
What role does God play in relation to the deceptions that pervade the Jacob cycle? What has not been investigated is the way God may factor into this deceptive activity. The book of Genesis contains a latent tension: Jacob is both a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family and YHWH&#...