ENGLIT 0597 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masturbation, Zipporah, Monolatrism
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Rachel outwits her father (claims her period so she can keep the idols hidden) Unequal love (parents and siblings; husband and wives) Wrestles with a man who will not reveal his name. Changes jacob"s (he takes by the heel) name to israel (he strives with god) Identified as an angel, but jacob identifies him as god. This divine being hits jacob in the hip (wins by cheating) One of the daughters of leah is rapped by shechem (son of hamor), but then falls in love with her. Beg for the marriage of dinah from both shechem and hamor. Problems with intermarriage: land being promised by hamor rather than god, being given land from the covenant from people other than god. Ironic use of circumcision counteroffer to become like the family of jacob; happy to do this because they want to be a part of the family. Eventually weakened and then slaughtered by the brothers of dinah.