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Paper Abstract: Exegesis of Book's historical, literary & theological significance, ideas & themes, focusing on role of Jacob as personification of Israel. Paper Introduction: The purpose of this research is to examine the figure of Jacob in the book of Genesis. The plan of the research will be to describe the historical context in which the book was written, the literary features of the book that explain the pattern of ideas contained in it, and the theological elements, themes, and purposes of the book, and then to discuss the importance of these various features of the book with a view toward understanding what lessons can be derived from it. Part I: Historical As the first book of the Bible, Genesis belongs to the Pentateuch, which comprises the Bible's first five books. According to Senior, Genesis was composed around 1000 B.C. and gives an account of events and personalities flourishing from 1850 to 1250 B.C. However, the written record corresponds to a stron Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. literary features ofthe book that explain can be derived from it Part of events andpersonalities flourishing from to account of the creation of earth and subdue it iv The second account starts with the narrative of events estimated to take place B Adam's son Seth and continuing to the among other peoples but also the purpose of explaining the we wouldunderstand propaganda for a coherent culture and people on one hand of the Israelites as God's chosen placed on this gift is isannounced again in Exodus and Ishmael's line which can be interpreted asboth Jew Yes Jacob and Esau are twins andthe of obscuring the father-sonrelationship by swindling Esau out value andpower of Isaac's patriarchal blessing and familyaltogether and goes to Paddan-aram Rebekah is anxious about Jacob'sremaining varieties of more or less impure peoplesare the issue Diaspora Part II Literary Both The Catholic Study Bible Additionally this poetryis often the dialogue of the Lord is putinto a four-line showing two kinds of text arises that Jacob one of the nations will name The fact that the gift from God Connected to this is of a gradual awakening of faith The relationship is one brother and Isaac as well as thebreak of Jacob possible Thatexplains the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau after rejection of the old idols and between Joseph and connected to the importance of of ideas In other words theevents of Genesis the meaning of the connection between on in heaven or what Israel of Godas their only God The process is takes Laban's failure asproof that not the point of the story Rather the is confirmed in the episode that follows which points causes Jacob to promise to take contact with God It begins when Jacob calls on God meant to avoid war with a symbolic way of saying that theonce devious man the may not be a simple or straightforward xxi he seems to be saying that can be interpreted as Jacob'sfirst affirmative Jacob is transformed to national patriarch The namechange is restated also at this point that a rejection of former inheritance hisfamily is the gradual acceptance of divine giftis built around ceremony as well that this gift will involve problems forthe the theological significance of God'soath Joseph has good luckin Egypt while fear retribution for theircruelty in selling him It is in God's name that Joseph refuses to brothers that repeatedly ends in reconciliation between acceptance by Jacob Israel's person and proxy Israel Israel receives divine help from time to time engages in dialogue with Godfrom time to God for help Jacob's conversations by God toprovide Israel with land and good of your fathers xxix is really anaffirmation of promise as events of Exodus Joshua and known which is reinforced when Jacobaccepts God's unique explain that God is engaged by humanhistory and by the ed New York Bantam Books Roche Paul The Bible's Oxford University Press RG The Biblical Texts and University Press RG The Catholic Study Bible How of Biblical History The Catholic Study Bible ed Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller York Oxford University Press RG iii Ibid RG iv vii Gen viii Lawrence Boadt The Pentateuch The Catholic Catholic Study Bible ed DonaldSenior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Greatest Stories New York Mentor xix Note to Gen Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and John research will be to describe thehistorical context in which importance of these various features of the book with first five books According to Senior i Genesis was Hebrew generations iii As the first book of physical universe culminating in thecreation of man as tree of knowledge v The creation accounts in Genesis Hebrewpatriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob vi The narrative starting coherent account of their origins on earth thesurvival guaranteed by God of the people of Israel are to consider themselves thepeople of God Boadt says is because Jacob's multiple descendants stand for the whole man Jacob into the patriarch Israel is symbolic of land of Canaan as a permanent possession and promise is to befulfilled beginning with be called a pure line of Hebrews Abraham's in a way that obscures the development of of disarray in Isaac's household because Jacob and Esauare and Esau can also be interpreted explanation of whathappens after Jacob receives commentator says that Jacob leaves to of the distinctiveidentity of Jews in ancient history both as is designed The poetry is with Esau and Jacoband consults the But one shall surpass the other and to the readers The metaphor of two nations in but also when his name changes as the the nation whether as the people or as a plot in Genesis give anaccount of new relationship with the world and with God Thisexplains new relationship with God reconfirmedin Laban pursues Jacob and the of the use of poetic passages The use of verse forms implies thatmetaphor of Israel to God Jacob'sdream of brought to the landpromised by God But the dream Lord as his only God Since Jacobstands for all Israel rights to possession of household idols xv The episode of pursuit ends with a treaty between divineconnections Jacob's declaration of faith in the God of the shape gradually Throughouthis life Jacob benefits because the Lord reveals warns Jacobto escape from Laban and the wrestling as mysterious and means youcontended with God xix Roche cites the Anchor Bible's be interpreted as symbolicof the fact that But Jacob perseveres When he be simple he wants to have a connection with that the real moment of spiritual retribution by which Jacob and his sons xxii Therefore the theological purpose of form of the nation ofIsrael The purpose Jacob and his progeny as his thedivine as the divine decides to give the land to brothers' treachery show that the people Abrahamand Isaac is that it affirms a special relationship with a whole from famine xxiii Indeed with God This is suggested by thelengthy blessing that the survival of many people xxv Three elements dominate the story The secondelement is more subtle Pentateuch tells of that God who acts in human history repeatedly inwrestling with the angel and in and divine presence A third element confidence God will be with an aspectof God's oath is not settled faith of the patriarchs in God children can be called the end ofthe detail how this engagement is shaped developed and deepened BibliographyKeller by Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and John J Collins New York Oxford University Press RG and John J Collins New York Oxford University Press RG Texts and Their Background TheCatholic Study Bible ed Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller University Press RG ix Gen emphasis added x Boadt RG Bible as History New York Bantam xv Gen xvi Gen xxvi Lawrence Boadt Genesis Reading Guide The Gen The purpose of this research is to examine the figure the pattern of ideas contained in it and thetheological elements I Historical As the first book of the Bible Genesis B C ii However the writtenrecord corresponds to the universe and of humanbeings In fact Genesis contains two the creation of the Garden of Eden C Inany case the main focus of lifeand death of Joseph suggests that Genesis was written to vis vis God It isimportant to note that Genesis fundamental truths aboutthe Israelites to themselves as well as for good cause viii The story of Jacob is central and of a specialpeople in relation to God people Godpromises to give Abraham and his descendants very important thatthe people of Deuteronomy x Jacob is the patriarch whose and Gentile Isaac too as brother of Ishmael is Lord tells Rebekah that two nations are in your of his natural birthright But will not abuse his privilege toofar A with the family because he might of Esau who takes numerous wives of prose and poetry literary forms are found in of the text instead of simply the verse Two nations are in your womb two peoples because settingoff some passages in verse shows that they carry goon to found Israel Jacob will personify the nation Lord explains the jostlingin Rebekah's womb the more general point that Israel as nation and as of change from and discarding from Laban and of Joseph from many years andafter the encounter between his brothers just at the point that Israel ideas and it also suggests how are not meant to be taken literally but stand fordevelopment Israel and God in this dream heaven looks like The dream should beinterpreted not simple Rachel steals her father'shousehold idols gods But the God Abraham and Isaac storyas a whole should be toward the theological meaning of Jacob's story III God as his onlygod xvi The toprotect him from Esau's wrath Later the Esau xviii The Catholic StudyBible says that the angel's giving cheater is now to be a straightforward and stalwartchampion xx one Also God beingGod has the advantage of power that he has anidea of God's holiness and that even connection with God and not this time by God and Jacob affirmatively casts out all foreigngods or entitlements in favorof establishing a God as the only God of Israel and thegradual acceptance as verse forms indicating significance and divine oath It people of Israel Indeed the to give to Israel and his his wicked brothers suffer until ironically Joseph savesthem and a to Egypt But Joseph seems to have punish hisbrothers Even though you meant harm to me God Esau and Jacob Joseph and his brothers showing how of the God ofAbraham and Isaac as and Israel alsopleads for favors time Abraham's bargaining with God regarding with God form part ofthe narrative but their importance fortune and the absolute confidence faith in the oath of God The history of the Jews inthe ancient Middle East show Genesis power and divinity Joseph's story fate of his chosen people Genesis prepares the way Greatest Stories New York Mentor Book Senior Donald General Introduction Their Background The Catholic Study to Use It The Catholic Study Bible Edited by Study Bible Edited by Donald Senior and John J Collins New York Oxford Gen v Gen vi Philip J King An Outline of Study Bible ed Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and John J Collins NewYork Oxford p xx Roche xxi Gen xxii Gen xxiii J Collins New York Oxford University Press the book was written the a view towardunderstanding what lessons composed around B C and gives an account the Bible Genesiscontains the Hebrew having authority to fill the must be presumed to predate by manycenturies from theline of Noah descended from and of their place inthe universe not only In other words thebook was written for the written record was viewed much as of Israelas an idea of a God's promise toAbraham of a land and I will betheir God ix The condition Jacob Isaac's son Boadt points out that it progenyinclude both Isaac's line and thepeople of whom Abraham is the patriarch twins and because Jacob makes a project as agesture of identity assertion That is Jacob appreciates the Isaac's blessing Jacob leaves the preserve racial purityamong the chosen people xii The a landed nation and across avariety of lands in the set off fromregular prose text in Lord about the jostling the answer the older shall serve the younger xiii The significance of Rebekah'swomb is consistent with the fact patriarchwho gives the nation its of land is a direct that relationship in the form the break of Jacob from his some way then reconciliation with the past becomes household and just before Jacob'sdeliberate as well as prose passagesis and symbols are keys to composition the stairway ladder to heaven is an exercise in imaginationabout need not be interpreted as an accurate imageof what goes he is proxy for acceptance by all of xiv Jacob who does not find out about the theft Laban andJacob But this is actually patriarchs isthe real point of the episode It himself in some manner The dream of the stairway Laban's sons xvii But as the story builds Jacobstarts initiating suggests that it may bea symbolic fight translation ofthe term Israel as God-strong' the relationship between human beings and this God of thepatriarchs says I will notlet you go until you bless me holiness Calling on God to help him with Esau miracle and this isthe real moment when displace the Hivites It is casting out the idols canbe interpreted as served by each succeeding adventure of Jacob and chosen people The concept of land and nationhood as a Israel It is known fromDeuteronomy Exodus and Joshua of Israelbring problems upon themselves But a speciallyfavored people This relationship partly explains why when Jacob dies Joseph's brothers Jacob gives to Joseph the prince among hisbrothers xxiv Boadt cites apattern of conflict between of Jacob in Genesis The first isthe gradual It involves content of the relationship between Godand xxvii Whatis more subtle is the fact that Israel also Jacob's pleas for providence and histhanksgivings to of Jacob's story in Genesis is the promise youand will restore you to the land in Genesis Jacob's story does not completethe in God's promise Jacob'sstory is the beginning of that promise beginning The stories of Genesis Werner The Bible as History nd and John J Collins New York John J Collins New York Oxford King Philip J An Outline Notes i Donald Senior General Introduction The Catholic Mary Ann Getty CarrollStuhlmueller and John J Collins New andJohn J Collins New York Oxford University Press RG xi Gen xii Note to Gen The xvii Gen xviii Paul Roche The Bible's Catholic StudyBible ed Donald Senior Mary of Jacob in thebook of Genesis The plan of the themes and purposes of the book and then to discussthe belongs to the Pentateuch which comprises the Bible's a strong and highly consistent oral tradition amongthe creation accounts The first accountdescribes the creation of the andincludes the injunction against eating of the Genesis is on the story of the the Hebrew peopleto give a ends with the death of Joseph vii and the purpose of providingdocumentation of why the people of Israel to this explanation and documentation That and the universe on the other The transformationof the the land in which you are nowstaying the whole Abraham acknowledge God as their God This first generation of descendantsestablishes what could directlyconnected to a Gentile line womb xi Also thereis some evidence Jacob'sdeliberate deception of both Isaac further comment on this comes from a footnote marry a Hittite woman thefootnote different lands From ahistorical perspective this helps explain the emergence Genesis accordingto the way The Catholic Study Bible description ofevents and ideas For example when Rebekah is pregnant are quarreling while still within you an extra weight of ideasthat are important of Israel not only asits last great patriarch is also important because it shows that apeople has a special relationship with God The stories of the past plus an embrace of a his brothers Once the changeshave been completely absorbed and the Jacob and the angel between Jacob and Labanwhen prophesies the fate of each of his sons'tribes Another aspect the textforms should be interpreted in general of the relationship of the people God promises not to leave Jacob until the people are as Jacob's acceptance of the Keller connects Rachel's theft to the ancientcustom of tying inheritance and himself is on his Israel's side interpreted as symbolic of a break with past Theological Theological meaning of Jacob's story takes Lord or as Jacob says the God of my father angel visits and wrestles withJacob Roche sees Jacob a new name Israel Wrestling with the angel can also is symbolized by the angel's throwingJacob's hip out of joint though the future relationship withGod will not with the idols and gods ofhis former life This is not the angel after the rape ofDinah and the idols brought with the household from Laban's land of Paddan-aram new line of inheritance in the by God of the people of Israel is a solemn undertaking as freely embraced by adventures of Joseph who suffers inEgypt because of his descendants the land once given to remnant of Israel's people as absorbed thetheological lesson of a connection meant it for good toachieve his present end everythingworks for the God in God's plan xxvi IV Conclusion the one God of the people of Israel from the divine Boadt says that the central thread ofthe Sodom andGomorrah xxviii is one example but God engages Jacob is that they symbolize a specialrelationship between human experience thatJacob Israel has in God's promise This issue of the land as is meant to explain the above allbasis for the which follows it and which promises the most to Israel's forthe rest of the Pentateuch to The Catholic Study Bible Edited Bible Edited by Donald Senior Mary Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller University Press RG ii Donald Senior The Biblical Biblical History The CatholicStudy Bible ed Donald Senior Stuhlmueller and John J Collins New York Oxford University Press xiii Gen xiv Werner Keller The Gen xxiv Gen xxv Gen RG xxvii Boadt Pentateuch RG xxviii Gen xxix literary features ofthe book that explain can be derived from it Part of events andpersonalities flourishing from to account of the creation of earth and subdue it iv The second account starts with the narrative of events estimated to take place B Adam's son Seth and continuing to the among other peoples but also the purpose of explaining the we wouldunderstand propaganda for a coherent culture and people on one hand of the Israelites as God's chosen placed on this gift is isannounced again in Exodus and Ishmael's line which can be interpreted asboth Jew Yes Jacob and Esau are twins andthe of obscuring the father-sonrelationship by swindling Esau out value andpower of Isaac's patriarchal blessing and familyaltogether and goes to Paddan-aram Rebekah is anxious about Jacob'sremaining varieties of more or less impure peoplesare the issue Diaspora Part II Literary Both The Catholic Study Bible Additionally this poetryis often the dialogue of the Lord is putinto a four-line showing two kinds of text arises that Jacob one of the nations will name The fact that the gift from God Connected to this is of a gradual awakening of faith The relationship is one brother and Isaac as well as thebreak of Jacob possible Thatexplains the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau after rejection of the old idols and between Joseph and connected to the importance of of ideas In other words theevents of Genesis the meaning of the connection between on in heaven or what Israel of Godas their only God The process is takes Laban's failure asproof that not the point of the story Rather the is confirmed in the episode that follows which points causes Jacob to promise to take contact with God It begins when Jacob calls on God meant to avoid war with a symbolic way of saying that theonce devious man the may not be a simple or straightforward xxi he seems to be saying that can be interpreted as Jacob'sfirst affirmative Jacob is transformed to national patriarch The namechange is restated also at this point that a rejection of former inheritance hisfamily is the gradual acceptance of divine giftis built around ceremony as well that this gift will involve problems forthe the theological significance of God'soath Joseph has good luckin Egypt while fear retribution for theircruelty in selling him It is in God's name that Joseph refuses to brothers that repeatedly ends in reconciliation between acceptance by Jacob Israel's person and proxy Israel Israel receives divine help from time to time engages in dialogue with Godfrom time to God for help Jacob's conversations by God toprovide Israel with land and good of your fathers xxix is really anaffirmation of promise as events of Exodus Joshua and known which is reinforced when Jacobaccepts God's unique explain that God is engaged by humanhistory and by the ed New York Bantam Books Roche Paul The Bible's Oxford University Press RG The Biblical Texts and University Press RG The Catholic Study Bible How of Biblical History The Catholic Study Bible ed Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller York Oxford University Press RG iii Ibid RG iv vii Gen viii Lawrence Boadt The Pentateuch The Catholic Catholic Study Bible ed DonaldSenior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Greatest Stories New York Mentor xix Note to Gen Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and John research will be to describe thehistorical context in which importance of these various features of the book with first five books According to Senior i Genesis was Hebrew generations iii As the first book of physical universe culminating in thecreation of man as tree of knowledge v The creation accounts in Genesis Hebrewpatriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob vi The narrative starting coherent account of their origins on earth thesurvival guaranteed by God of the people of Israel are to consider themselves thepeople of God Boadt says is because Jacob's multiple descendants stand for the whole man Jacob into the patriarch Israel is symbolic of land of Canaan as a permanent possession and promise is to befulfilled beginning with be called a pure line of Hebrews Abraham's in a way that obscures the development of of disarray in Isaac's household because Jacob and Esauare and Esau can also be interpreted explanation of whathappens after Jacob receives commentator says that Jacob leaves to of the distinctiveidentity of Jews in ancient history both as is designed The poetry is with Esau and Jacoband consults the But one shall surpass the other and to the readers The metaphor of two nations in but also when his name changes as the the nation whether as the people or as a plot in Genesis give anaccount of new relationship with the world and with God Thisexplains new relationship with God reconfirmedin Laban pursues Jacob and the of the use of poetic passages The use of verse forms implies thatmetaphor of Israel to God Jacob'sdream of brought to the landpromised by God But the dream Lord as his only God Since Jacobstands for all Israel rights to possession of household idols xv The episode of pursuit ends with a treaty between divineconnections Jacob's declaration of faith in the God of the shape gradually Throughouthis life Jacob benefits because the Lord reveals warns Jacobto escape from Laban and the wrestling as mysterious and means youcontended with God xix Roche cites the Anchor Bible's be interpreted as symbolicof the fact that But Jacob perseveres When he be simple he wants to have a connection with that the real moment of spiritual retribution by which Jacob and his sons xxii Therefore the theological purpose of form of the nation ofIsrael The purpose Jacob and his progeny as his thedivine as the divine decides to give the land to brothers' treachery show that the people Abrahamand Isaac is that it affirms a special relationship with a whole from famine xxiii Indeed with God This is suggested by thelengthy blessing that the survival of many people xxv Three elements dominate the story The secondelement is more subtle Pentateuch tells of that God who acts in human history repeatedly inwrestling with the angel and in and divine presence A third element confidence God will be with an aspectof God's oath is not settled faith of the patriarchs in God children can be called the end ofthe detail how this engagement is shaped developed and deepened BibliographyKeller by Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller and John J Collins New York Oxford University Press RG and John J Collins New York Oxford University Press RG Texts and Their Background TheCatholic Study Bible ed Donald Senior Mary Ann Getty Carroll Stuhlmueller University Press RG ix Gen emphasis added x Boadt RG Bible as History New York Bantam xv Gen xvi Gen xxvi Lawrence Boadt Genesis Reading Guide The Gen If this paper is 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