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	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacob's almost embryonic posture and his desperate clinging to the body of the angel appears even more pathetic when compared to the seemingly impassive superiority of the divine messenger.
		Although including the patriarch, the angels' blessing has cosmic proportions as this is suggested in the symbols of sun, moon, and the ladder.
		Looking at Beckmann's Jacob Wrestling with the Angel we may note that this "senselessness of the cosmos " was already included in the all-encompassing blessing of the angel.
	www.udayton.edu /mary/gallery/works/jacobwrestling.htm (309 words)

	TBM - Twins Biblical Ministries - Jacob
		Jacob was probably born at Lahai-roi, twenty years after Isaac and Rebekah were married, at which time his father was sixty (Gen. 25:26), and Abraham one hundred and sixty years old.
		Like his father, Jacob was of a quiet and gentle disposition because, the Hebrew tells us, he was an "ish tam," which means "simple" or "pure" in the sense of a "perfect simplicity." Jacob dwelt "in tents," interpreted as a mark of his studiousness.
		Jacob was the second born of the twin sons of Isaac, by Rebekah.
	www.twinstours.com /Jacob.htm (257 words)

	Jacob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacob Wrestling with the Angel – Gustave Doré, 1855
		Jacob, together with Esau, was born to Isaac and Rebekah after 20 years of marriage, at which time his father was 60 (Genesis 25:26), and Abraham was 160 years old.
		Jacob was distraught when he heard this news, for Benjamin was all that was left to him of his beloved wife Rachel's children, and he refused to release him lest something happen to Benjamin, too.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob (3658 words)

	The Story of Redemption - Chapter 13 - Jacob and the Angel
		Jacob was determined to hold the angel, not by physical strength, but by the power of living faith.
		Jacob's distress when he learned that Esau was marching against him with four hundred men, represents the trouble of the righteous as the decree goes forth to put them to death, just before the coming of the Lord.
		Jacob's earnest, persevering wrestling with the angel should be an example for Christians: Jacob prevailed because he was persevering and determined.
	www.preparingforeternity.com /sr/sr13.htm (1475 words)

	UMJC - Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations - The Set Table - Vayyislach 5767
		Jacob's name in Hebrew literally means "heel" but can also be translated as "supplanter" or "deceiver." His name is very fitting for it epitomizes the essence of Jacob's life as conveyed in the Torah.
		Jacob had truly become a new person and as result was given a new name to signify the spiritual transformation that had occurred his life through his struggle.
		Jacob, after wrestling his whole life with everyone around him, finally came to the realization that the only person he had to wrestle with in order to be blessed was the Lord.
	www.umjc.net /content/view/204/44 (1627 words)

	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jacob and the Angel, Gustave Moreau, 1878, CGFA.
		Jacob and the Angel, serigraph by Shraga Weil, 1965.
		Jacob and the Angel, Sir Jacob Epstein, 1940-41.
	www.textweek.com /art/jacob_wrestling.htm (131 words)

	Angels ~ www.fluidikons.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Large angels are made from 8 gauge wire and available in copper and light blue.
		Small angels come packaged in a clear 4" x 6" plastic sleeve complete with the poem inspired on the same day the angel design was created.
		Angel plaques (above) and mobiles (below) are also available utilizing both small and large angels.
	www.fluidikons.com /Angels.htm (125 words)

	Jacobs Night of Wrestling
		As Jacob was threatened with death by his angry brother, so the people of God will be in peril from the wicked who are seeking to destroy them.
		While Jacob was wrestling with the Angel, another heavenly messenger was sent to Esau.
		Wrestling with God--how few know what it is! How few have ever had their souls drawn out after God with intensity of desire until every power is on the stretch.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/1388/jacobs_wrestling.html (2978 words)

	Psalm 12:6 and Proverbs 30:5
		When Jacob deceived his father Isaac to obtain the patriarchal blessing, it was in response and obedience to his mother's wish (in those days the word of a parent — whether father or mother - carried much weight).
		Jacob's "transformation" did not take place only at the time of the wrestling - as is routinely taught in the churches - but already during his years of service at Laban’s.
		Because the Angel of the L-RD had appeared to Jacob and shown him the "trick" with the rods taken from the almond, poplar and plane.
	www.ortzion.org /Jacob_wrst0.html (2342 words)

	Uzziel ~ Angel of Faith: Angels, Archangels, Guardian Angels, Holy Angels, What are angels? . . .
		Jacob was afraid for his life because Esau his brother, a strong and brutal man, was on his way to kill him.
		Jacob felt he had a choice; he could find a clever solution like he had done many times before, or he could give up the struggle and surrender completely to God.
		Jacob fought the angel all night, symbolizing his spiritual battle, and would not let the angel leave at daybreak unless he blessed him.
	www.drstandley.com /angels_uzziel.shtml (396 words)

	C. Jacob versus God: Wrestling for a Blessing (32-35)
		Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the break of the day.
		Jacob separated himself from his flocks and family and remained on the far side of the Jabbok river.
		Jacob, whose name means "heel-grabber," hence "trickster," undergoes a name change to Israel, which means "wrestles with God." By giving an account of his dual name Jacob/Israel, the Elohist identifies Jacob as the patriarch of the nation of Israel.
	www.hope.edu /academic/religion/bandstra/RTOT/CH2/CH2_2C.HTM (1638 words)

	The struggle for a blessing: reflections on Genesis 32:24-31 - Jacob wrestling with the angel - Bossey and Ecumenical ...
		Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
		Gregory is certainly aware of the deficiencies in Jacob's character -- his being a party to the cruel hoax played on his father and brother and his countering Laban's treachery with crafty schemes of his own.
		So this wrestling match does not refer to a single tour de force or to a one-time effort to "make God change his mind", but rather symbolizes human nature, which is offered the chance to participate in the divine reality, the only true reality, by following a strenuous spiritual itinerary.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2065/is_n4_v48/ai_18972371 (908 words)

	Jacob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What Jacob chooses by his action is a separation of the two clans in two different parts of the land.
		The identity of Jacob's opponent has been inferred from the fact that at the end of their wrestling, Jacob's opponent blesses him: "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and men [or gods and men] and have prevailed" (Genesis 32:28).
		Jacob had every reason to want Esau to ratify their father's blessing by adding to it a brotherly blessing of his own.
	fontes.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/Peniel.htm (954 words)

	Jubilee
		The image of Jacob wrestling with the angel is also consistent with the Ignatian emphasis on reflection -- reflection is wrestling with an idea until it gives you its blessing.
		One issue that we might all wrestle with this year is the balance of mercy and justice or mercy and rigor in our classrooms.
		Jacob was resting before he wrestled with the angel.
	www.creighton.edu /CollaborativeMinistry/jub-crawford.html (810 words)

	God's Face is God's Presence
		Peniel means "God's face" or "God's presence." The story of Jacob wrestling with the angel indicates that this was prophetically Jacob's day of decision to see if he really wanted to see God face to face.
		In other words, the angel of His presence, or face, is named Peniel, even as other angels have names that indicate their character and job description.
		Even as Jacob's name was changed to Israel by beholding God's face in the angel, so also are we changed from glory to glory by beholding His face (2 Corinthians 3:18).
	www.gods-kingdom.org /SecondComing/Chap9.htm (9527 words)

	NCAW Spring 06 \| Aimee Brown Price reviews Gauguin's Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The wrestling motif was examined by way of the ancient Breton tradition of the gouren, a local wrestling competition that in the nineteenth century drew the attention of tourists.
		Although the motif of wrestling was contextualized as a regional tradition, it was also reexamined as a revitalized religious theme of biblical proportions, as in Delacroix's Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (represented by a study for his grand ca.
		That is, the angel and Jacob, separated from the rest of the composition by the diagonal of the tree trunk, would be like an idea bubble in twentieth century cartoons.
	19thc-artworldwide.org /spring_06/reviews/brow.html (3939 words)

	Wrestling with the Angel
		Jacob could hear his attacker's breath, he could feel the cloth of his garments, he could even smell him.
		Jacob was a very strong man, but even using all of his strength he could not free himself and he could not pin his enemy down either.
		Before the angel left he touched him on the place where he was hurt." This was something I could understand, often my mother did this too.
	www.rachelremen.com /wrestling.html (683 words)

	Sermon - When Wrestling with God, Don't Forget to Dance.
		Jacob is not a typical biblical hero, which makes him more interesting to me. In fact, most of the time he comes across as a biblical Charlie Brown; an honest man but lacking in imagination and daring.
		Jacob was introverted and frustrated, at times bursting into fits of anger.
		The stranger Jacob wrestled with that night was not an angel or a god, but his own deepest and darkest self -- or at least a part of himself that was a stranger to him, a part of himself that was not weak, ambivalent and manipulative, but strong, powerful and courageous.
	www.uucava.org /sermons/ministry99.htm (2623 words)

	Angels Information Portal @ Angel.am (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Angels, some also believe, may have first been depicted as God's Google Search: angel in Zoroastrianism, and their hierarchy is comparable to modern Angelology's hierarchy.
		They purport that similarities, such as those between 34 Common Questions about Angels and engel, and the incorporation of other motifs, were created by priests in an attempt to exalt Zoroaster, and deter those of Zoroastrian faith from converting to other faiths.
		The main source of Zoroastrian lore comes from the Dictionary of Guide Angel, which the author claims to be truthful to the ancient legends, but which was written after the Islamic conquest of Persia.
	www.angel.am (2008 words)

	Jacob's Wrestling with an Angel
		Jacob was seeking refuge with his uncle Laban in Haran from his brother Esau who wanted to kill him.
		Jacob did not know what to expect from his uncle.
		G-d confirmed to Jacob in no uncertain terms that he — not his brother Esau - was indeed the heir of the promise and the blessing, despite the fact that Jacob had obtained the patriarchal blessing for the firstborn by stealth.
	www.ortzion.org /Jacob_wrestl.html (923 words)

	Jacob's Ladder
		It's interesting that this passage is usually captioned as Jacob wrestling with an angel.
		The term angel comes from the Greek angelos, or messenger, and this was apparently one of the instances when someone attributed with bringing news from the Lord appeared in regular human form.
		Rose wrote that were it not for its intuitive ability, which he referred to as the "invisible current" coming down Jacob's Ladder into the mind from a source other than sensory perception, the mind would be caught in a hopeless trap.
	www.selfdiscoveryportal.com /arJacobsladder.htm (495 words)

	Gauguin's Vision
		Maurice Denis also painted 'Jacob Wrestling with the Angel' (1893), which is a decoratively rich work but one that does not approach the spiritual drama of Gauguin's masterpiece.
		For 19th-century Romantics, Jacob came to represent the artist, the anguished soul whose lot it was to reveal the secrets of life itself by wrestling with nature, by a confrontation with the world.
		Eugène Delacroix's mural of 'Jacob Wrestling with the Angel' (c.1861) in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, established considerable interest in the subject among artists in France in the mid-19th century.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /painting/gauguin.asp (2175 words)

	Patriarchs and Prophets chapter 18
		Though Jacob had left Padan-aram in obedience to the divine direction, it was not without many misgivings that he retraced the road which he had trodden as a fugitive twenty years before.
		Jacob remembered the vision at Bethel so long before, and his burdened heart grew lighter at this evidence that the divine messengers who had brought him hope and courage at his flight from Canaan were to be the guardians of his return.
		Jacob's experience during that night of wrestling and anguish represents the trial through which the people of God must pass just before Christ's second coming.
	fermi.jhuapl.edu /s1r/people/res/bsp/patriarchs_c18.html (2373 words)

	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Odilon Redon in his 1909 Jacob's Combat with the Angel (oil on canvas, 143.5 x 62 cm, Brooklyn Museum, New York, pictured Jacob and the Angel as tiny figures dwarfed by giant trees.
		Naked, with twisted limbs and impotent, Jacob is no match for the imposing and effortlessly fighting Angel.
		He has the body of a professional wrestler, but is nonetheless a figure of light intent on overcoming darkness and merging with the dawn breaking on the right side of the plate.
	www.udayton.edu /mary/gallery/works/jacobwrestlingwiththeangel.htm (270 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		It's said in midrash that the angel had the face of Jacob's enemy brother, Esau, so the wrestle was in part with the darker forces of the self.
		So the wrestling with language is one kind of spiritual encounter that every writer faces word by word, sentence by sentence.
		Throwing the match to pride is a kind of fake wrestling move that might win temporary applause from an audience that does not want to be disturbed by the truth, but in the long term faking cheapens the game.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/94/story_9414_4.html (952 words)

	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacob Wrestling with the Angel is a common biblical motif depicted in art.
		It was referenced in the play Angels in America.
		It is also a popular theme for contemporary angel inspired art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacob_Wrestling_with_the_Angel (132 words)

	Amazon.com: The Struggle With the Angel: Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of Good and Evil: Books: Jean-Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In his winding search for the place of humankind in the eternal battle of good and evil, Kauffmann consults a cast of characters associated with the church and the painting who offer their views on what the painting means to them.
		His muse is The Struggle of Jacob with the Angel, a Delacroix painting in Paris’s Saint-Sulpice.
		Chapel of the Holy Angels, Charles Delacroix, Jacob Wrestling, Abel de Pujol, Chapel of the Virgin, Peristyle Chapel, Notre Dame, David Shahar, Font Chapel, George Sand, Henry Delacroix, Paul Loppin, Foreign Affairs, New Testament, Old Testament, Paul Loppln, Philippe Bridau, Victor Hugo
	www.amazon.com /Struggle-Angel-Delacroix-Jacob-Good/dp/1568582439 (1004 words)

	Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (detail) by DELACROIX, Eugène
		Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (detail) by DELACROIX, Eugène
		Jacob Wrestling with the Angel has been read as a summary of Delacroix's life and work.
		Indeed the leitmotif of his career is the struggle - a spiritual combat - between his aspiration to classicism and his Romantic genius, between his admiration for Racine and his love of Shakespeare.
	www.wga.hu /html/d/delacroi/5/506delac.html (69 words)

	Wrestling With the Angel
		He wrestles with the angel of God and prevails.
		It was therefore unnecessary for Jacob to divide his group.
		The Lord touched Jacob (v.25) –he was never the same again
	www.learnthebible.org /L-022_wrestling_with_the_angel.htm (214 words)

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