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Athanasius --- Saint --- Patriarch of Alexandria --- -373

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Sermons, Coptic --- Manuscripts, Coptic --- Athanasius, - Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, - -373

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Abraham --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Biblical Character --- Biographical Essay --- Abraham - (Biblical patriarch)

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Rife with incest, adultery, rape, and murder, the biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi, tricked the men of a nearby city into undergoing circumcision, and then murdered all of them as revenge for the rape of their sister. Judah, the fourth son, had sexual relations with his own daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, jealous of their younger sibling Joseph, the brothers conspired to kill him; they later relented and merely sold him into slavery. These stories presented a particular challenge for ancient biblical interpreters. After all, Jacob's sons were the founders of the nation of Israel and ought to have been models of virtue. In The Ladder of Jacob, renowned biblical scholar James Kugel retraces the steps of ancient biblical interpreters as they struggled with such problems. Kugel reveals how they often fixed on a little detail in the Bible's wording to "deduce" something not openly stated in the narrative. They concluded that Simeon and Levi were justified in killing all the men in a town to avenge the rape of their sister, and that Judah, who slept with his daughter-in-law, was the unfortunate victim of alcoholism. These are among the earliest examples of ancient biblical interpretation (midrash). They are found in retellings of biblical stories that appeared in the closing centuries BCE--in the Book of Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and other noncanonical works. Through careful analysis of these retellings, Kugel is able to reconstruct how ancient interpreters worked. The Ladder of Jacob is an artful, compelling account of the very beginnings of biblical interpretation.

Jacob --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.2 --- Genesis --- Īakov --- Israel --- Isrāʼīl (Biblical patriarch) --- Jacob, --- Jakob --- Yaʻaḳov --- Yaʻăqōb --- Yaʻqūb (Biblical patriarch) --- Yiśraʼel --- יעקב --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. --- RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament. --- Jacob - (Biblical patriarch)

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Bishops --- Weakland, Rembert --- Catholic Church --- Clergy --- 262.12 <73> --- 27 <73> "19" --- Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 262.12 <73> Episcopaat: aartsbisschop; primaat; bisschop; metropoliet; patriarch; exarch--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Archbishops --- Major orders --- Metropolitans --- Orders, Major --- Chaplains, Bishops' --- Episcopacy --- Weakland, Rembert. --- Weakland, George --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Bishops - Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Biography