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Genesis 32:22-32
; ...told and retold the story of Jacob at the Jabbok. This and other traditions collected and...ways in which the story of Jacob at the Jabbok served God and the community of faith...canonical form and context. Jacob at the Jabbok is essentially a crucial episode in the...
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Young Worshipers Expected to Fill MCI Arena
; ...Donald Wright had good seats at MCI Center, but the pastor of Jabbok International Fellowship in Forestville wasn't thinking about...corporate relationship between our youth and God." The word Jabbok, taken from Genesis 32:22 in the Old Testament, means, "a place...
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Clarence Musser, 95, former teacher
; ...medical unit. Musser taught chemistry, mathematics and physics at Marysville High School and Messiah College. He also taught at Jabbok School in Oklahoma and was head of Northern High School's science department until retiring in 1970. A longtime member of Grantham...
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BOOKS INTERVIEW: Air and angels Former Beirut hostage Jean-Paul Kauffmann tells Gerry Feehily how he found freedom in a Paris church. Portrait by Herve Bruhat
; ...inscrutable encounters, where Jacob, returning to the lands of Esau, the brother he supplants, fights with an angel by the ford of Jabbok. Perhaps it's the gigantic trees towering above the adversaries, or perhaps the strangely abstracted, tender expression on the...
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Prague traditions
; Prague Traditions Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague. By SYLVIE ANNE GOLDBERG, translated by...
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Preaching and postmodernism
; ...postmodern context calls for new ways of preaching the gospel. Like Jacob struggling with the stranger on the bank of the River Jabbok in Genesis 32, preachers and congregations today wrestle with postmodernism.1 Postmodernism is an umbrella word that names trends...
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Paul O. Ingram, Wrestling with God.(Book review)
; ...non-Christians, Ingram returns to the wrestling paradigm, this time taken from Jacob's night-long struggle with God at the ford of Jabbok (Gen. 32:23-33). Reflecting that faith is God's way of starting a fight with us, the author observes that, like Jacob, our wrestling...
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THE PORTION; Wrestling
; ...and experiences a terror that seems to be with him for the rest of his life. Jacob's is different, for it is as he crosses the Jabbok that he wrestles with the angel, and for the first time we have one of the patriarchs behaving in a way that we can understand...
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SALUTING Seminarians
; ...Americanized capitalism that has traded the Cross for cash, cameras, and crowds, are there any men and women standing like Jacob at the Jabbok wrestling against God, man, and self? The African American Pulpit is excited to answer such questions with a resounding YES...
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Booths or Succoth? A response to Yigael Yadin
; ...and 1 Kgs 20:12, 16, arguing that here (...) refers to the city of Succoth, located just east of the Jordan River along the Jabbok River Valley.2 Yadin's interpretation has been received favorably;3 nevertheless, this article seeks to show why "in the booths...
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