Jacob : Unexpected Patriarch.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The children struggled in her womb": The Fight for the Birthright -- 2. "He should cheat me twice? He took my birthright and now he has taken my blessing!": Jacob the Deceiver -- 3. "And behold, a stairway was set on the ground and its head reached to the sky": Jacob's Dream at Bethel -- 4. "It is not the practice in our place": Wives and Sons, A Mixed Blessing -- 5. "Let me go and I will go to my place and to my land": Jacob's Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom -- 6. "For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed": Jacob's Homebound Encounters -- 7. "Should our sister be treated like a whore?": Jacob in Shechem -- 8. "And Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his kin in ripe old age": Deaths in the Family -- 9. "And Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was the son of his old age": Priority of the Young -- 10. "Gather together that I may tell you what is to befall you in the days to come": An End, A Beginning -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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