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The second of Victor P. Hamilton’s two-volume study of Genesis for the NICOT series, this prodigious and scholarly work provides linguistic, literary, and theological commentary on Genesis 18–50. Beginning with Abraham’s reception of the three visitors and his intercession before Yahweh on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18) and continuing through the end of the Joseph story (Gen. 50), the...

This is the third occasion on which Jacob memorializes a site by giving it his own name; cf. “Bethel” (28:19) and “Mahanaim” (32:2). All of them involved Jacob and a malʾāḵ or malʾāḵîm, “angel(s).” When Jacob adds now my life has been preserved, he does not mean that he is happily surprised that he has seen God and is still alive. Jacob is not saying: “By all logical considerations, I should be dead by now.” It is true that God says that “a man shall not see me and live” (Exod. 33:20) (a concept
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