Ca. 1740 Control number IAP 72640043 Type Paintings Medium Oil Data Source Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums Topic Religion--Old Testament--Isaac Religion--Old Testament--Jacob ...

(Jacob would also return once more to Bethel and speak to God: Genesis 35:1-15.) In a sense, Jacob is somewhat like the dishonest steward who cooked his employer’s books to indebt his boss’s ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Long before the Incarnation, Scripture gave us signs — and Jacob’s ladder is one of the clearest glimpses of the Word made flesh.

Jacob comes into his own when he learns that he can fight. The Hebrew word used to describe Jacob’s success against the ish, vatoochal (Genesis 32:29), is usually rendered as “prevailed.” ...