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The setting is known: Esau came back exhausted from the countryside and saw his younger brother Jacob cooking a stew. So he asked Jacob to feed him with that red (adom in Hebrew) stew; Jacob agreed but only after trading the stew for Esau’s birthright. This is why, the story goes, Esau was known as Edom. This seemingly common biblical family story, recounted in Genesis 25:29-34, attempts to explicate the origins of the name of the ancestor of the Edomites, people that inhabited southern Transjordan during the first half of the 1st millennium BCE...
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| Format: | Artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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University of Michigan. Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies
2018
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| Subjects: | HISTORIA ANTIGUA, BIBLIA, ANTIGUO TESTAMENTO, COSTUMBRES Y TRADICIONES, COMIDA, ORIENTE MEDIO, CERAMICA, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/9232 |
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