Our fascination, then, with the Jacob story has much to do with an evolving worldview regarding what is just, and of routine upon Jacob’s “refusal world of privilege and denial is disrupted by the God of subordination.” Here “that blessing who will sojourn with the and in the end, this whole ‘low despised.’” And, narrative calls into question a conventional settlement of power. But, this need not surprise us, as this scandalous God of the Old Testament is the same one who challenges the way in which society is ordered in the gospels by choosing “a Crucified One as the way to make all things new.” Still, in contrast to is not argued here that Jacob is good or honest or Jesus, “it purposes of God are tangled in a web of self-interest and respectable.” Instead, “the self-seeking.” of God places Jacob in a series of unrelieved conflicts. The “The call entire narrative is marked by when the twins struggle even in strife,” foreshadowed the womb. Years later, as Isaac lies on his deathbed, Jacob devises a plot with the permission, encouragement, and assistance of his mother. As his sight fails, father’s Jacob tricks Isaac into blessing him instead of his older brother. From this point on, any sympathy we may have had for Jacob or Rebekah has been tarnished. In we feel toward them at all, the feeling is probably fact, “if
Our fascination, then, with the Jacob story has much to do with an evolving worldview regarding what is just, and upon Jacob’s “refusal of routine subordination.” Here “that world of privilege and denial is disrupted by the God of blessing who will sojourn with the ‘low and despised.’” And, in the end, this whole narrative calls into question a conventional settlement of power. But, this need not surprise us, as this scandalous God of the Old Testament is the same one who challenges the way in which society is ordered in the gospels by choosing “a Crucified One as the way to make all things new.” Still, in contrast to Jesus, “it is not argued here that Jacob is good or honest or respectable.” Instead, “the purposes of God are tangled in a web of self-interest and self-seeking.” “The call of God places Jacob in a series of unrelieved conflicts. The entire narrative is marked by strife,” foreshadowed when the twins struggle even in the womb. Years later, as Isaac lies on his deathbed, Jacob devises a plot with the permission, encouragement, and assistance of his mother. As his father’s sight fails, Jacob tricks Isaac into blessing him instead of his older brother. From this point on, any sympathy we may have had for Jacob or Rebekah has been tarnished. In fact, “if we feel toward them at all, the feeling is probably