Going Up and Going Down: A Key to Interpreting Jacob's Dream (Gen 28.10-22)
In Going Up and Going Down Yitzhak Peleg argues that the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a mise en abyme ('as a figure, trope or structure that somehow reflects in compact form, in miniature, the larger structure in which it appears', Greenstein). Close examin...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Peleg, Yitzhak, 1947-, Going up and going down] (2017) (Wöhrle, Jakob, 1975 -)
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| Series/Journal: | The Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | In Going Up and Going Down Yitzhak Peleg argues that the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a mise en abyme ('as a figure, trope or structure that somehow reflects in compact form, in miniature, the larger structure in which it appears', Greenstein). Close examination reveals that focusing on the vision of Jacob's dream and understanding it as a symbolic dream facilitates an explanation of the dream and its meaning. Scholars have historically classified the dream as theophany, the purpose of which is to explain how Beth-El became a sacred place, and as such the vision |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0567660257 |