PATRIARCH ►

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LEITMOTIF

Noah

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob

Joseph

 

“Go forth and multiply” (patriarch as new Adam)

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ü

 

ü

 

Reversal of primogeniture (pat. as new Abel)

 

 

[ü]

(Ishmael)

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ü

Rebellion/transgression (pat. as new Cain)

 

ü

 

ü

ü

Barren matriarch (threat to “multiply”)

 

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ü

 

Exile (threat to “go forth”)

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[alibi: “She’s not my wife, she’s my sister”]

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ü

 

[üü]

ü

 

[ü]

ü

ü

“This town ain’t big enough for the both of us”

 

ü(Lot)

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ü

 

Ordeal or test

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[name change]

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ü

[ü]

ü

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[ü]

ü

(but not directly from God)

Covenant

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ü

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ü

 

Betrothal at well

 

 

ü

ü

 

Deception with textiles (cloth, goatskin)

 

 

ü

(by Jacob)

üü

(by Laban; later, by his own sons)

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(of Potiphar, by wife)

Famine, flight into Egypt

 

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ü

(but God tells him to stay out of Egypt)

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(sons)

 

Period of “captivity”

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Dreams

 

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