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["Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>]

Oops, sorry! I wrote Jacob where I should have written Isaac:
Jonathan D. Safren
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> Interestng! A close reading of the text indicates that Jacob [should be:
Isaac] made a
> reasonable attempt to ascertin the identity of his son, but in the end he
> expressies his puzzlement and perplexity with the statement, "The voice is
> Jacob's voice, but the hands are Esau's hands!" When the plot is
discovered,
> Jacob [should be: Isaac] does not rejoice, but says that Jacob stole the
blessing that was
> rightfully Esau's.
> The whole tenor of the narrative is that Jacob, with his mother's
> instigation and cmplicity, robs his brother of his blessing, just as
> previously he has cheated him of his birthright.
> Rather than approve of Jacob and Rebecca's duplicity, the narrator has
them
> both punished - Jacob by long exile from his father's house, by being
> deceived himself time and time again by Laban, and by never seeng his
mother
> again; and Rebecca by never seeing her beloved son again.
> Isaac is an active participant in the story, a major character, but he
> certainly did not contrive to deceive himself. It was Divinely ordained
and
> executed by Jacob and Rebecca.
> Sincerely,
> Jonathan D. Safren
> Dept. of Biblical Studies
> Beit Berl Colege
>
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