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Can I read Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story (Semeia Studies) on EtoBox?
Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story (Semeia Studies) by Noel Forlini Burt is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story (Semeia Studies) about?
An interdisciplinary study of a familiar patriarchal narrative Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story traces the many moments of darkness in the life of Jacob. From the darkness of his mother's womb, to the darkness Jacob uses to deceive his father and his brother, to the night he sleeps on the ground with just a stone for a pillow at Bethel, and to the triumphant scene of wrestling God by the Jabbok River, the biblical story frequently situates Jacob in the darkness. Thro
Who reads Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story (Semeia Studies)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Noel Forlini Burt
- Publisher
- The Society of Biblical Literature
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780884144595
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, History, Bible
- Updated
- 2026-03-25