Episode 117 - Poetic Justice in the Jacob Story

Episode Summary

In this Podcast we rehearse the two times Jacob exploits his older brother Esau, once by getting him to sell his birthright and again by using deception to steal his paternal blessing. However, Jacob does not get off the hook entirely for these dubious actions. When he goes to his mother’s family there are a series of incidents in which punishment mirrors the nature of his misdeeds. Jacob is victimized by his own appetite, like Esau had been; he was the victim of sibling rivalry, just as he had struggled with Esau; he was duped in a tent, just as his father had been; and he was threatened once again by someone “groping.” Jacob ended up being the “child of promise,” but was not unscathed.

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