“For Your Work Will Be Rewarded”: On the Development of the Sign Tradition
The framework of the biblical story describing the switching of Jacob's wife Rachel for her older sister Leah by their father on the wedding night (Gen 29:21-25) does not specify the practical conditions that made the duplicitous act possible. Although the deceit is carried out at the sensitive...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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HUC
2021
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Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 2020, Volume: 91, Pages: 77-126 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 29,15-30
/ Lea, Biblical person
/ Jacob
B Rahel, Biblical person B Ḳimḥi, Daṿid 1160-1235 |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | The framework of the biblical story describing the switching of Jacob's wife Rachel for her older sister Leah by their father on the wedding night (Gen 29:21-25) does not specify the practical conditions that made the duplicitous act possible. Although the deceit is carried out at the sensitive moment the spouses were in the midst of a highly intimate act, no suspicion arises in the mind of the deceived Jacob until sunrise. Radak (David Kimḥi, 1160-1235, Southern France), in his commentary on the verse describing the exposure of the deceit (Gen 29:25), explains: “He did not recognize her until morning, as we have already explained; and the aggadic explanation according to which Rachel gave her [Leah] signs [to disguise her identity by imitating Rachel] is well known.” |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15650/hebruniocollannu.91.2020.0077 |