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Isaac, Blessing

Isaac Tries to Give an Agricultural Blessing to Esau the Hunter

Why are Israelites blessed with agricultural abundance while the Edomites live in a semi-arid land and are forced to hunt? Isaac’s blessing is an etiological story to explain this reality from an Israelite perspective.

Dr.

Ely Levine

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The Bible’s Blind Old Men

The patriarchs Isaac and Jacob are both described as blind from old age when they give blessings to the next generations. Eli the priest and Ahijah the prophet are also blind. How did the biblical authors use disability as a narrative device?

Dr.

Eric J. Harvey

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Locating Beer-lahai-roi

When geography makes or breaks a storyline

Dr.

David Ben-Gad HaCohen

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The Source of Jacob’s Two Blessings

Staff Editors

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