Jacobs

Rebecca is the mother of Jacob, who becomes the ancestor of all of Israel (Encyclopedia in Jewish women’s archive). Rebecca is first introduced in the Bible when Abraham’s servant is searching for a wife for Isaac, and chooses Rebecca after she gives him water for him and his camels. Rebecca willingly went with the servant back to Canaan and became Isaac’s wife (The Good News Bible, Gen. 24). Rebecca is empowering to women because she does what she wants to do and does not let the will of her husband

significant in that it is one of only two of the Minor Prophetic books that are addressed entirely to a nation other than Israel and Judah. The Book of Obadiah deals with the ancient feud between Israel and the nation of Edom, between the descendants of Jacob and those of his brother Esau. Through the prophet Obadiah, the Lord expressed His indignation at the nation of Edom. When they should have been helping their relatives, they were gloating over the Israelites’ problems and raiding their homes. “The

Abraham and his wife, Sarah, have a son, in 2066BC, whose named Issac. Issac and his wife, Rebecca, have two sons named, in 2006BC, Jacob and Esau. Jacob with his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and his wives two handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah, fathers a total of 12 sons and one daughter, sometime around 1921BC. Later on, his named is changed by God into Israel and the families of his 12 children become the Twelve Tribes of Israel, which later on they became known as the Israelites. The Old Testament

person like this, in biblical times, is none other than Joseph “The Dreamer”. Joseph fills the definition of a Byronic Hero, and it all starts at his birth. Joseph was the only son of his father Jacob and mother Rachel, a miracle because of their age. Joseph was immediately favored by his father Jacob, and his brothers were very jealous. One day, while his brothers were out in the field caring for the sheep, Joseph approached them and told of his dream. “We were in the field tying bundles of

A Patient Prayer-Warrior and a Woman Defeated by Sin Rebekah in Genesis and Monica in Confessions are both women who possess some admirable qualities of a Christian wife and mother. Augustine writes a beautiful tribute of his mother in his famous Confessions. We read about her humble character in Book IX. Here we see a glimpse of her kind, loving spirit and we learn more about her background growing up in a Catholic family. We are introduced to Rebekah in the Old Testament book of Genesis when she

Referred to as “Tanak” by Jews, the Hebrew Bible contains twenty-four books characterized by three categories: The Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Ketuvim, which outline the history and beliefs of the Jewish faith. The Torah, commonly known as the “Law of Moses,” contains the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five narrative books cover the Biblical eras of creation, the patriarchs, and the exodus. In Genesis 1, God created everything from nothing at His will in six

began to get pretty difficult as a five year old. Instead of spending the weekends at home with my family, I spent them wondering when I would get to see my mom and dad again. Getting bossed around by my older sister, Hannah and my older brother, Jacob, made me miss them even more. After seeing Matthew in the hospital I felt guilty for being jealous of all of the attention he was getting. But I was 5,and dumb. At this time, everything I knew about my family was changing. I had to learn to be a little

Once upon on a time, in the land of Canaan, there lived a man named Jacob. He had eleven sons, but his favorite was his youngest son Joseph who was seventeen. Now, Joseph wasn’t favored by anyone else other than his father. His older brothers hated him and made plans of killing him, because they thought of Joseph as being spoiled, and a tattletale. One day, Joseph had a dream that the brothers and himself were picking grain and he was in the center, his brothers bowed down to him. This made his brothers

several Scriptural pairs as they relate to the idea of the active and contemplative lives in Philo, Origen, Augustine, and Gregory. As will be shown, Augustine combines elements found in the two previous writers to form his allegory of the two wives of Jacob as representative of the active and contemplative lives. In Philo, most of the essential elements of later Christian thought on the active and contemplative lives are already present. The superiority of the contemplative life is given at the beginning

In the 12th century, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, known as the Rambam, was extremely influential as both a Torah commentary and a physician. He produced works in both Biblical and Talmudic studies as well as writings on health of both the mind and the body. He believed that Hashem has created everything including remedies for all illnesses and rules for a healthy lifestyle. He believes that if a sickness can be treated by nutrition, no other means should be used. The Rambam writes about the ideal