Lecture 15 of 17 · Biblical Series: Genesis
XIV: Jacob: Wrestling with God
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Jacob wrestles through the night with an angel, or with God, and comes away wounded but renamed Israel: he who wrestles with God.
Genesis
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Jordan B. Peterson
Genesis · 17 lectures
The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories
17 lectures
I: Introduction to the Idea of God
II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order
III: God and the Hierarchy of Authority
IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death
V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers
VI: The Psychology of the Flood
VII: Walking with God: Noah and the Flood
VIII: The Phenomenology of the Divine
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X: Abraham: Father of Nations
XI: Sodom and Gomorrah
XII: The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
XIII: Jacob’s LadderXIV: Jacob: Wrestling with God
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