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One 20th-century poet, not without reason, found the Rachel/Leah struggle a hopeless dilemma, which she describes with sadness and satire:1
My father came and bid me stay,
Enjoined the women bar my way.
And dumb to all entreaty, led
The story begins in Canaan. Jacob, the son of Isaac and Rebekah, is instructed by his father to leave Beer-Sheva and “go to Paddan-aram … to take a wife there from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother” (Genesis 28:2). Jacob sets out for the region of Haran as he was told and “he came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night” (Genesis 28:11).
Huldah the prophetess—let us celebrate her—holds a unique place in history. It was she who, for the first time, designated a written document as Holy Scripture. She began the process that culminated more than millennium later in the canonization of the Bible.
Gospel of Thomas, Saying 54 | Q 6:2028 = Matthew 5:3 |
Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven. | Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. |
