After all, Jacob's sons were the founders of the nation of Israel and ought to have been models of virtue. In The Ladder of Jacob, renowned biblical scholar James Kugel retraces the steps of ancient biblical interpreters as they struggled with such problems. Kugel reveals how they often ...
Kugel, J. (1995). "The Ladder of Jacob", HTR, Vol. 88:2, 209-227.KUGEL, James L. The Ladder of Jacob. In: Harvard Theological Review 88, 1995.Lunt, H. G. "Ladder of Jacob." Pages 2:401-11 in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. ...
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2.Jacob's ladder- (nautical) a hanging ladder of ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps jack ladder,pilot ladder sailing,seafaring,navigation- the work of a sailor ladder- steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down ...
Jacob's ladder [¦jā·kəbz ¦lad·ər] (naval architecture) A portable ladder, having rope, chain, or wire sides, and wooden or iron rungs, slung over the ship's side for temporary use. Also known as jack ladder. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, ...
1. a ladder seen by Jacob in a dream, reaching from the earth to heaven. Gen. 28:12. 2. Naut. a hanging ladder having ropes or chains supporting rungs or steps. [1825–35]Ja′cob's-lad′dern. any plant of the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, with cup-shaped blue flower...
“Jacob’s Ladder” by William Blake, 1806. Genesis 28 (NRSV) Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women.2Go at once to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of ...
Inspired by Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven (Genesis 28:12), Scully’s stack of colored felt slabs rises more than ten meters toward the luminous dome of San Giorgio Maggiore, Palladio’s splendid Renaissance church in Venice. Amid the subdued grays and whites of the interior, the mi...
Foster,Contemplative Prayer, 93. On ascent and suffering see also Colombas,Paradis et Vie Angélique, 106. Colombas, OSB, referring here to the ladder of Jacob (as a symbol of asceticism and purification notes that as the religious cry and suffer while climbing upwards, the world and all th...
Molecular weights (in kilodaltons, kDa) of ladder makers are shown in the left, and the L and VP35 bands are labeled on the right. (c, d) In vitro primer extension assay of L-VP35 complex. It demonstrates the purified complex protein possesses polymerase activity, and the product bands...