Jacob's Struggle at Peniel 
.... The story of
Jacob's struggle at Peniel has much potential for a moving sermon. First,
Jacob meets
God in a face-to-face encounter and struggles with him. ....
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Jacob's Name Change in Genesis
.... brother Esau. Fearing Esau will attack him,
Jacob reminds
God of the promise to be good to him and his descendants (Gen. 32.13).
Jacob ....
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Jacob in the Book of Genesis
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Jacob's story is the beginning of that promise, which is reinforced when
Jacob accepts
God's unique power and divinity. Joseph's ....
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Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved: Relationship With Her ...
Sarah Louise Bradshaw, the narrator of Katherine Paterson's
Jacob Have I Loved .... sister - and the equally important relationship she enjoys with
God - is evoked ....
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Jacob and Isaac
.... claims a divine source for the blessing he is about to receive when Isaac asks how he got there so soon, and
Jacob replies that it is because
God has granted ....
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Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God
.... summon 1d4) to cause to be heard 2) sound 3478 Yisra'el {yis raw ale'} Israel = "
God prevails" 1) the second name for
Jacob given to him by
God after his ....
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam
.... It is in
Jacob's story that the
God of Abraham, Noah, Lot, and Isaac is formally embraced by those who will identify themselves as Jews. ....
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Biblical Sibling Rivalry
....
God is using prophecy and the foibles of human beings to bring about good after a period of evil. The sin of
Jacob was foretold, but it was a sin nonetheless. ....
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Judaism and Islam
.... As the story builds,
Jacob starts initiating contact with
God, which can be interpreted as
Jacob's affirmative attempts to abandon the idols and gods of his ....
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Examination of the Commandment, Thou shalt not kill
.... the
God of your father . . . the
God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, the
God of
Jacob," and again in Exod. 3.15-17, when
God tells ....
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The Word of God
.... 2004, 1). Thus, when Hagar, Abraham,
Jacob, Moses, Joshua and others in the Old Testament see
God, they saw the image of the invisible
God, the Word, Jesus. ....
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The Word of God
.... 2004, 1). Thus, when Hagar, Abraham,
Jacob, Moses, Joshua and others in the Old Testament see
God, they saw the image of the invisible
God, the Word, Jesus. ....
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When the World Was Whole
.... The Kaddish is a link in a chain that goes back to
Jacob, Isaac, and .... greatest strength of the family through the centuries was the sense that their
God was the ....
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Analyze Christian Morals, Marriage, and Courtship in Pride and ...
.... Austen's world is definitely one in which the role of
god has taken a more passive role, though Protestant Christian ethical influences .... Ehrlich,
Jacob. ....
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Book of Isaiah
.... Messiah. Isaiah reminded the people of Judah that
God would not forget His covenant made to Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, and David. He ....
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Scripture
.... is surely the occasion when
Jacob wrestled all night long with a mysterious stranger and discovered that he had in reality been struggling with
God" (6). The ....
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Biblical prophecy in the Old Testament
.... case (Hosea 5:8; Amos 2:4-6). Prophets have authority based on
God's promise of the land of Canaan to Abram and to
Jacob/Israel and his people--a special gift. ....
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Amos and Hosea: A Comparison
.... In the last chapter
God says he will "command the sword to slay them .... good" (9.4), but he also says that he "will not destroy the house of
Jacob completely," or ....
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An Exegesis of 2 Kings
.... which Elisha placed in his
God, Christ turned to the heavens and multiplied the loaves and fishes as a symbol of how
God is always ....
Jacob, Irene and Walter
Jacob ....
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Angels in Renaissance Art
.... Chamuel ("one who sees
God") is thought to be the one who wrestled with
Jacob and who appeared to Christ during his agony in the garden, though others believe ....
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Analysis of Hasidism
.... way of life and his views of
God and his experience of nature as a vital element of life. Compared to the extreme heresies of Sabbatai Zvi and
Jacob Frank, the ....
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Judaism's Communal Orientation
.... In common use, the word Jew is used to refer to all of the physical and spiritual descendants of
Jacob, Abraham and Isaac .... 1. Relationship with
God and the Torah ....
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Passover, The Holocaust, Israel
.... As Trepp goes on to say, the children of
Jacob who was first bestowed with the name of Israel "have chosen
God as their guide, thus may consider themselves ....
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The Old Testament
.... of a personal relation between the individual and his
God ultimately masquerades .... as modern critics have pointed out, "Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph, Moses ....
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John Bright's History of Israel
.... of a personal relation between the individual and his
God ultimately masquerades .... as modern critics have pointed out, "Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph, Moses ....
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Jesus and Saint Paul
.... of Zion will come the Deliverer;/he will banish ungodliness from
Jacob'" (Romans 11 .... humanity, Jews and Gentiles alike, have sinned by breaking
God's commandments ....
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Biblical Perspective on the Life Span
.... into slavery to get the favorite son out of
Jacob's way and tell
Jacob he is .... keep his family from starving because of the famine in Canaan: "And
God sent me ....
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Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide
.... Dr. Dora Edinger declared: "Since I have been in the Beth
Jacob seminary, I am .... of heroines who died rather than be defiled, and as children of
God who will ....
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Authorship of Luke-Acts
.... 1988. Jervell,
Jacob. "The .... Augsburg, 1988. ---- Luke and the People of
God: A New Look at Luke-Acts Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1972.
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Abraham in Judaism, Christianity & Islam
.... Genesis 16:4-6). She was convinced to return, however, and promised by
God that her .... It is through Isaac, though, and also through his son
Jacob (who had 12 sons ....
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