Brisman, Leslie

The voice of Jacob : on the composition of Genesis / Leslie Brisman - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1990 - xx, 122 p. ; 24 cm. - Indiana studies in biblical literature .

1. Second thoughts -- 2. Degenerations -- First murderers -- Starting over -- Testing the weather -- Dispersions -- 3. The calls of Abraham -- Get you gone -- Take and begone -- Get signed -- Beget -- Get a good deal -- 4. The disappearances of Isaac -- The banishment of Ishmael -- The undoing of the aqeda -- The dissociation of Lot -- The overlooking of Isaac -- 5. Jacobs brood -- Double portions -- Upstairs, downstairs at Beth-el -- Laban's usage -- Keeping the Teraphim -- Striving with God -- Holy war -- 6. Joseph's increase -- The interpretation of seams -- Continence and its discontents -- The question of lay analysis -- Beyond the providence principle -- Jitneys and their relation to the unconscious -- The future of a confusion.

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Bible. Genesis Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Genesis Authorship.Bible as literature.

BS1235.2 / .B75 1990