Jacob and the Divine Trickster Dennis Lines originally published in 2009

originally published in 2009

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Jacob and the Divine Trickster Dennis Lines originally published in 2009The book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWHs chosen, from whom the entire people Israel derive and for whom they are named. These two notices produce a latent tension in the text: Jacob is concurrently an unabashed trickster and YHWHs preference. How is one to address this tension? Scholars