Jacob and the Divine Trickster Dennis Lines Kevin Stein casts a wide

Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the ''ineffable befuddlement'' of everyday life

originally published in 2009

supporting new teachers into their first years in the classroom

In this volume you will find many practical suggestions of ways to apply these ideas both in the classroom and in the staffroom

Mark O'Meara

Jacob and the Divine Trickster Dennis Lines Kevin Stein casts a wideThe book of Genesis portrays the character Jacob as a brazen trickster who deceives members of his own family: his father Isaac, brother Esau, and uncle Laban. At the same time, Genesis depicts Jacob as YHWHs chosen, from whom the entire people Israel derive and for whom they are named. These two notices produce a latent tension in the text: Jacob is concurrently an unabashed trickster and YHWHs preference. How is one to address this tension? Scholars