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"This study offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions, examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in Genesis, Deuteronomy, and the prophetic material. First, it is argued that the depiction of Esau and his descendants in Genesis and Deuteronomy is, on the whole, positive. Second, it is put forward that Edom is portrayed negatively by the prophets for violating their kin, and for disrespecting the divine apportioning of the lands. Finally, it is suggested that these traditions have resonance with one another based on recurring literary and theological motifs, heuristically framed as brotherhood and inheritance."--Bloomsbury Publishing This study offers a canonical reading of the Esau and Edom traditions, examining the portrayal of Esau and Edom in Genesis, Deuteronomy, and the prophetic material. First, it is argued that the depiction of Esau and his descendants in Genesis and Deuteronomy is, on the whole, positive. Second, it is put forward that Edom is portrayed negatively by the prophets for violating their kin, and for disrespecting the divine apportioning of the lands. Finally, it is suggested that these traditions have resonance with one another based on recurring literary and theological motifs, heuristically framed as brotherhood and inheritance.

Edomites. --- Esau --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Adomim --- Idumaeans --- ʻEśaṿ --- עשיו --- 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) --- Esau - (Biblical figure)

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There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure.

Closure (Rhetoric) in the Bible. --- Bible. --- Criticism, Narrative. --- 221.015 --- Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte --- 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) --- 221.015 Oud Testament: literaire kritiek; authenticiteit; bronnenstudie; Formgeschiche; Traditionsgeschichte; Redaktionsgeschichte --- Closure (Rhetoric) in the Bible

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Christelijke literatuur --- Christian literature --- Littérature chrétienne --- Bible. --- Commentaries. --- Armenian language, Classical --- Eusebius, --- Bible --- 276 =75 EUSEBIUS EMISSENUS --- 222.2 --- Griekse patrologie--EUSEBIUS EMISSENUS --- Genesis --- Old Armenian language --- Eusèbe, --- 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) --- Bible. O.T. Genesis --- Commentaries --- Armenian language, Classical - Texts --- Eusebius, - Bishop of Emesa, - approximately 300-approximately 359

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What role does God play in relation to the deceptions that pervade the Jacob cycle? What has not been investigated is the way God may factor into this deceptive activity. The book of Genesis contains a latent tension: Jacob is both a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family and YHWH's chosen, from whom the entire people of Israel derive and for whom they are named. How is one to reconcile this tension? This dissertation investigates the phenomenon of divine deception in the Jacob cycle (Gen 25-35). The primary thesis is that YHWH both uses and engages in deception for the perpetuation of the ancestral promise (Gen 12:1-3), giving rise to what Anderson has dubbed a theology of deception. Through a literary hermeneutic, emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between both how the text means and what the text means, with theological aims, this study examines the various manifestations of YHWH as Trickster in the Jacob cycle. Attention is given to how the multiple deceptions evoke, advance, and at times fulfill the ancestral promise. In Gen 25-28 YHWH engages in deception to insure Jacob receives the ancestral promise. Here Jacob is seen cutting his deceptive teeth by extorting the right of the firstborn from Esau and the paternal blessing from Isaac. YHWH, however, also plays the role of Trickster through an utterly ambiguous oracle to Rebekah in Gen 25:23, which drives the human deceptions. At Bethel (Gen 28:10-22) Jacob receives the ancestral promise from YHWH, in effect corroborating the earlier deceptions. In Gen 29-31 YHWH uses the many deceptions perpetrated between Jacob and Laban to advance the ancestral promise in the areas of progeny, blessing to the nations, and land. Lastly, in Gen 32-35 YHWH participates in Jacob's final deception of Esau (Gen 33:1-17) through two encounters Jacob has, first with the "messengers of God" and second with God. Jacob's tricking of Esau during their reconciliation results in Jacob's return to the promised land. Can anyone out-trick the Divine Trickster? Anderson thus rightly gives due attention to the Old Testament's image of God as dynamic, subversive, and unsettling, appreciating the complex and intricate ways that YHWH interacts with his people. This witness to YHWH's engagement in deception stands alongside and informs the biblical portrait of YHWH as trustworthy and a God who does not lie.

Deception in the Bible. --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Deception in the Bible --- Election (Theology) --- God (Judaism) --- 222.2 --- Believability --- Credibility --- Falsehood --- Lying --- Post-truth --- Untruthfulness --- Reliability --- Truth --- Honesty --- Attributes of God --- Predestination --- Salvation --- Attributes --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Judaism --- Genesis --- Christianity --- Jacob --- 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) --- Truthfulness and falsehood - Religious aspects - Judaism.

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Paul, --- Philo, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bible --- Commentaries --- Early works to 1800 --- 227.08 --- 231.51 --- 296*332 --- 231.51 De Deo creatore. Schepping --- De Deo creatore. Schepping --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Paulinische theologie --- 296*332 Philo van Alexandrië:--studies --- Philo van Alexandrië:--studies --- Alexandria, --- Filon --- Filón, --- Filon, --- Filone, --- Philon, --- Philonis, --- Yedidyah, --- פילון --- פילון מאלכסנדריה --- פילון, --- פילון היהודי --- Филон Александрийский --- Filon Aleksandriĭskiĭ --- Pseudo-Philo --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Pawełm --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bible. --- 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) --- Early works to 1800. --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint - Criticism and interpretation --- Philo, - of Alexandria - Criticism and interpretation --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint --- Philo, - of Alexandria