1.12 Genesis V: Jacob and Joseph

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 August 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jacob is the great trickster in the Bible, outwitting his father Isaac, his brother Esau, and even his own children. The P, E, and J sources have several different versions of Jacob's stories. For example, Jacob visits and names Bethel twice. There is the unsavoury incident of the rape of Jacob's daughter Dinah, met with a brutal and horrendous over-reaction from her brothers. We also have another unpleasant story about Jacob's son Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. We conclude with an introduction to Joseph.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.
0:27.9	The episode. Episode 1.12, Jacob and Joseph.
0:45.1	Welcome back to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:49.1	In the last episode, Jacob had left his elderly father
0:52.7	and he camp for his uncle's pastures in
0:54.8	Iran, east of the Jordan and outside of Canaan. On his way, Jacob has his first encounter
1:02.0	with God. In an unusual move, God decides not to appear in person, as he did with all the other
1:09.9	patriarchs. Instead, he wafts into one of
1:13.1	Jacob's dreams. Jacob commemorates the vision by constructing a pillar and naming the place
1:19.1	Bethel, Betail, House of God. Bethel later marked the southern boundary of the tribe of Ephraim
1:25.7	and the southern boundary of the northern kingdom ofraim and the southern boundary of the northern
1:27.8	kingdom of Israel. It was one of Israel's two great cultic sites, where the Israelite kings
1:34.4	set up two golden cards. The other was in the north at Dan. God also makes a special
1:42.2	commitment to Jacob. He had promised Abraham and Isaac that he would make of them a great nation, but he gave no specifics. Now he gives a personal guarantee to Jacob, quote, Genesis 2815. Remember, I am with you. I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land.
2:06.2	I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. End quote.
2:12.4	But Jacob is much more wary than his grandfather Abraham. He answers God with his own conditions.
2:20.0	Quote, Genesis 2820. Jacob then made a vow saying, if God remains with me, if he protects me on this
2:31.1	journey that I am making and gives me bread to eat and clothing to wear
2:35.3	and if I return safe to my father's house Yave shall be my God and this stone which I have set up as a
2:44.2	pillar shall be God's abode and of all that you give me I will set aside a tithe for you."
2:51.6	The Jewish writer and journalist David Plotz uses Jacob's vision to make an interesting
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