How did Jacob emerge whole? When explaining to Laban how he survived all those years in his home, he tells him that it was the “fear of Isaac” (31:42) that kept him going. Jacob’s father ...

where he spends 22 years with his wily and deceptive uncle Laban. Jacob flees because his brother Esau threatened to murder him for deceptively taking the blessings that their father, Isaac ...

He knew that, if he could, Laban would keep him in his household as a kind of prisoner. In this respect, Jacob’s experience was closer to the Exodus than that of Abraham or Isaac. No one stopped ...

As well, it appears that Rebecca – “the sister of Laban ... from any ambivalence Isaac may feel toward Jacob, just as it never diminishes from the ambivalence Abraham has toward Isaac.