The Janus nature of Jacob’s gift to Esau foreshadows his refusal to travel ... and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel.” He can be reached at [email protected].

Jacob comes from a pastoral milieu, whereas Esau comes from a nomadic hunting community ... own herd after his second period of indenture with Laban comes to an end. The Bible tells the story of Jacob ...

When the angels return, they bring back a “status report”—Esau is coming ... basis for interpreting Jacob’s messengers as human is rooted in the general biblical usage of the term.

Jacob has fled from the murderous anger of his brother, Esau. He comes to a certain place ... on the Torah and on other books of the Jewish Bible. The Zohar teaches that God sits on a throne ...

Esau felt cheated; Jacob felt fear. That night ... This essay is from Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible by the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. (Maggid/OU Press).

The word and its dots demand attention. Furthermore, when Esau runs to Jacob and kisses him, the verbs are singular, yet the Hebrew word “they wept” is plural. They both cried. Yet the dots ...

In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible ... Esau. After being deprived of the birthright blessing, Esau announced his intention to kill ...

When I read about her in my illustrated children’s Bible, it turned out that she was sort of a jerk. The wife of Isaac and the mother of Esau and Jacob, she tricks her husband into thinking one of her ...

The biblical rivalry between Esau and his younger twin, Jacob, who tricks him out of their father's blessing, serves as the prototype for this yeasty, vibrant and sprawling modern-day family saga ...