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Can I read Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis on EtoBox?
Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis by Klitsner, Shmuel is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis about?
The book Wrestling Jacob presents close readings of the biblical stories of Jacob from both literary and psychological perspectives. The readings explore the relationship between text and subtext as reflecting the relationship between the conscious and subconscious. On one level, this book is about Jacob's personal wrestling with his own angels and demons, his struggle to build a ladder between his own internal heaven and earth. On another level, it is about deceptions of ourselves and of others
Who reads Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity, and Freudian Slips in Genesis?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Klitsner, Shmuel
- Publisher
- Ben Yehuda Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781934730164
- Category
- religious
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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