Jacob – Study Guide, Additional Resources

Recommended Readings:

• Nahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis (New York: Schocken, 1966), 181–210.
• Susan Niditch, Underdogs and Tricksters (San Francisco: Harper, 1987), 70-125.

Articles and Charts: (click to view)

• “Rebecca (Rivkah)” by David Mandel
• “Understanding Jacob’s Ladder” by Pinchas Leiser
• “Genealogy from Terah” at BibleChronology.org

Sermons: (click to view)

• “When Breaking Points Become Breakthroughs, by Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes
• “Jacob’s Ladder” by Elizabeth Dunsker

Lectures: (click to view)

• YDS Old Testament Interpretation, Part 1 – Lecture 12, by Robert Wilson
• YDS Old Testament Interpretation, Part 1 – Lecture 13, by Robert Wilson

Videos: (click to view)

• YBS Book of Genesis study with Professor Joel Baden: Week 7 – full lecture
• Tricks or Treachery?, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• The Deceiver Becomes the Deceived, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Esau – Villain or Victim?, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Reunion, Dr. Joel S. Baden
• Jacob’s Wives, Dr. Joel S. Baden

Podcasts: (click to access)

• “Jacob’s Rocky Pillow” (Eighth Sunday after Pentecost), Chapter, Verse, and Season: A Lectionary Podcast from Yale Bible Study

Art: (click to view)

• “Study for Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” by William H. Johnson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• “The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau” by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
• “Jacob’s Ladder” by Yoram Raanan