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The setting is known: Esau came back exhausted from the countryside and saw his younger brother Jacob cooking a stew. So he asked Jacob to feed him with that red (adom in Hebrew) stew; Jacob agreed but only after trading the stew for Esau’s birthright. This is why, the story goes, Esau was kno...
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University of Michigan. Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/9232 |
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| Sumario: | The setting is known: Esau came back
exhausted from the countryside and saw
his younger brother Jacob cooking a stew.
So he asked Jacob to feed him with that
red (adom in Hebrew) stew; Jacob agreed but only
after trading the stew for Esau’s birthright. This is
why, the story goes, Esau was known as Edom. This
seemingly common biblical family story, recounted
in Genesis 25:29-34, attempts to explicate the
origins of the name of the ancestor of the Edomites,
people that inhabited southern Transjordan during
the first half of the 1st millennium BCE... |
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