The Case of the Inverted Male Wrestlers: Assessing Lyle Eslinger's Reversal of the Participants in Genesis 32:26-33.
A popular article by Lyle Eslinger makes a vigorous case for revising the common understanding of Jacob's wrestling match with the stranger at Penuel (Gen 32:23-33 [Eng. 32:22-32]). Eslinger proposes that Jacob was the one who struck his opponent in the ..., rather than vice versa. Notably, Eslinger...
| Publicado en: | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 88; no. 2; pp. 211 - 220 |
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