HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Family Saga
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Send the servants to find a wife for isaac. Strangers will take care of you at least overnight. A man going to the well, and having a woman come out and give water, then marry the man. Expected way of finding a wife in this culture. When knowing the plot, need to pay attention to details, details mean significantly. The detailed differences: in isaac"s story, isaac did not come himself, but sent his servant. Isaac"s father moves from place to place, but isaac does not. He is successful in the world sense of making a good living. Relationship between the household politics and the external world politics. Become aware of that there is a public and private sphere. In the household, female has a role to play, and in this case the role is dominant. Jacob the deceiver between deceiver (laban, father of jacob"s wife rachel) and deceived (esau)
