Jacob wrestling with the angel is described in the Book of Genesis (chapter 32:22–32; also referenced in the Book of Hosea, chapter 12:3–5).[1] The "angel" in question is referred to as "man" (אִישׁ: Ish) and "God" (אֵל: El) in Genesis, while Hosea references an "angel" (מַלְאָךְ: Malakh).[1][2] The account includes the renaming of Jacob as Israel (etymologized as "contends-with-God").[1]
In the Genesis patriarchal narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a riverside during his journey back to Canaan.[1] He encounters a "man" who proceeds to wrestle with him until dawn.[1] In the end, Jacob is given the name Israel and blessed, while the "man" refuses to give his own name. Jacob then names the place where they wrestled Penuel (פְּנוּאֵל: "face of God" or "facing God"[3]).
On that night, he arose and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and he crossed over the Jabbok ford. He took them and sent them over the river, and he sent over that which was his. Jacob was left to his lonesome. A man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. He saw that he was powerless against him. He struck the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated in his struggle with him. He said, "Release me, for dawn is broken!" He said, "I will not release you, except if you bless me!" He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob." He said, "Jacob will not be said as your name anymore, but Israel, for you struggled with God and with men, and you are capable!" Jacob asked, and said, "Now, reveal your name!" He said, "Why is it that you ask for my name?" He blessed him there. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face-to-face, and my soul survives." The sun shone on him when he passed Penuel, and he was limping over his thigh. Verily, to this day the Israelitesdo not eat the 'forgotten sinew', which is over the socket of the thigh, for he struck in the socket of Jacob's thigh, in the forgotten sinew.
The account contains several plays on the meaning of Hebrew names—Peniel (or Penuel), Israel—as well as similarity to the root of Jacob's name (which sounds like the Hebrew for "heel") and its compound.[4] The limping of Jacob (Yaʿaqob), may mirror the name of the river, Jabbok (יַבֹּק Yabboq), and Nahmanides (Deut. 2:10 of Jeshurun) gives the etymology "one who walks crookedly" (עָקֹב ʿaqob) for the name Jacob.[5]
The Hebrew text states that it is a "man" (אִישׁ, LXX ἄνθρωπος, Vulgate vir) with whom Jacob wrestles, but later this "man" is identified with God (Elohim) by Jacob.[6]
Hosea 12:4 furthermore references an "angel" (malak). Following this, the Targum of Onkelos offers "because I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face", and the Targum of Palestine gives "because I have seen the Angels of the Lord face to face".[7]
Interpretations
The identity of Jacob's wrestling opponent is a matter of debate,[8] named variously as a dream figure, a prophetic vision, an angel (such as Michael and Samael), a protective river spirit, Jesus, or God.[9]
Jewish interpretations
In Hosea 12:5, Jacob's opponent is described as malakh, which means 'angel': "Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us". The relative age of the text of Genesis and of Hosea is unclear, as both are part of the Hebrew Bible as redacted in the Second Temple Period, and it has been suggested that malakh may be a late emendation of the text, and would as such represent an early Jewish interpretation of the episode.[11]
Moses Maimonides believed that the incident was "a vision of prophecy",[12] while Rashi believed Jacob wrestled with the guardian angel of Esau (identified as Samael),[13] his elder twin brother.[14]Zvi Kolitz (1993) referred to Jacob "wrestling with God".[15]
As a result of the hip injury Jacob suffered while wrestling, Jewish law prohibits eating the gid hanasheh (sciatic nerve), which passes through the hip socket, requiring it to be removed from meat through the process of nikkur,[16][17][18] as mentioned in the account in Genesis 32:33.[19]
Christian interpretations
The interpretation that "Jacob wrestled with God" (glossed in the name Isra-'el) is common in Protestant theology, endorsed by the Protestant reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin (although Calvin believed the event was "only a vision"),[12]
as well as later writers such as Joseph Barker (1854)[20] or Peter L. Berger (2014).[21] Other commentaries treat the expression of Jacob's having seen "God face to face" as referencing the Angel of the Lord as the "Face of God".[22]
The proximity of the terms "man" and "God" in the text in some Christian commentaries has also been taken as suggestive of a Christophany. J. Douglas MacMillan (1991) suggests that the angel with whom Jacob wrestles is a "pre-incarnation appearance of Christ in the form of a man".[23]
According to one Christian commentary on Jacob's words 'I saw God face to face', "Jacob's remark does not necessarily mean that the 'man' with whom he wrestled is God. Rather, as with other, similar statements, when one saw the 'angel of the Lord', it was appropriate to claim to have seen the face of God."[22]
Other views
In an analysis of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch's 1968 book Atheism in Christianity, Roland Boer says that Bloch sees the incident as falling into the category of "myth, or at least legend". Boer calls this an example of "a bloodthirsty, vengeful God ... outdone by cunning human beings keen to avoid his fury".[25]
"This dramatic scene has spurred much commentary from Judaic, Catholic, and Protestant theologians, biblical scholars, and literary critics. Does Jacob wrestle with God or with an angel? ... There is no definitive answer, but the story has been rationalized, romanticized, treated as myth, and treated symbolically."[28]
In arts
Visual arts
One of the oldest visual depictions is in the illustrated manuscript the Vienna Genesis.[29] Many artists have depicted the scene, considering it as a paradigm of artistic creation.[30] In sculpture Jacob Wrestling with the Angel is the subject of a 1940 sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein on display at the Tate Britain.[31] Paintings include:
Depiction on a high cross in Kells, Ireland (10th century)[32]
Jacob struggles with the angel, Wutenberg Bible (1558)
In music
The Latin text of Genesis 32:30 'Vidi dominum facie ad faciem; et salva facta est anima mea' (I have seen the Lord face to face) was set for the third nocturn at Matins on the second Sunday of Lent and was a popular medieval telling of the story of Jacob's encounter with the angel. It is set as the tenor (upper voice) text of Machaut's multi-text-layered MotetVidi dominum (M 15; I have seen the Lord) simultaneously with two secular French texts: "Faux semblant m'a decü" and "Amours qui ha le pouvoir."[33] Machaut musically contrasts God's blessing in the Latin text with the disappointments of secular love in the French texts.[34]Charles Wesley's hymn "Come, O Thou Traveller Unknown", often known as "Wrestling Jacob", is based on the passage which describes Jacob wrestling with an angel. It is traditionally sung to the tune of St Petersburg.[35]U2's Bullet the Blue Sky, the 4th track on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree includes the lyric "Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome."
The lyrics of Isaac, a song featured on Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor album, contains many allusions to the book of Genesis and references Jacob's encounter with the angel in the line "wrestle with your darkness, angels call your name". Noah Reid released his song "Jacob's Dream" as the second single of his 2020 second album.[36] The song uses the metaphor of wrestling with angels to explore that "blessings are hard to come by and they cost you something," as Reid told Indie88.[37]Mark Alburger's Israel in Trouble, Op. 57 (1997) includes the story in movement VIII. On his way.
^A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David L. Jeffrey (1992). p. 852 "WRESTLING JACOB The account of Jacob wrestling with the angel at the ford of the Jabbok River is replete with Hebrew puns (Gen. 32:24–32). Several of these relate to the root of Jacob's name, 'qb ("heel"), and its compound standing as a West Semitic diminutive of "The LORD will pursue" or "The LORD preserves"
^A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David L. Jeffrey (1992). p. 852: "Jacob was forced to answer, Yaʿaqob, perhaps mirroring the name of the river, Yabbok, but meaning'crooked' (Nahmanides, Deut. 2:10 of Jeshurun, gives this etymology for Jacob, 'one who walks crookedly'; after the thigh wound delivered ..."
^Meir Gertner, Vetus Testamentum, International Organization of Old Testament Scholars, International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament 1960. Volume 10, p. 277: "In Genesis it is a 'man' with whom Jacob wrestled. Later in the story this 'man' appears to be identified with God (Gen. xxxii 29, 31). Talmud, Targum, Syriac and Vulgate take 'God' here to be an angel."
^Anthony Hanson The Prophetic Gospel: Study of John and the Old Testament 056704064X 2006 Page 76 "The Targum of Onkelos offers 'because I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face',14 and the Targum of Palestine 'because I have seen the Angels of the Lord face to face'.i5 No doubt this substitution was facilitated by Hosea 12.4, where
^Ellens, J. Harold; Rollins, Wayne G., eds. (2004). Psychology and the Bible: From Genesis to apocalyptic vision (illustrated ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 77. ISBN9780275983499.
^ abLoades, Ann; McLain, Michael, eds. (1992). "Wrestling with the Angel: A Study in Historical and Literary Interpretation". Hermeneutics, the Bible, and Literary Criticism (illustrated ed.). Springer. pp. 133–4. ISBN9781349219865.
^Shammai Engelmayer; Joseph S. Ozarowski; David Sofian (1997). Lipman, Steve (ed.). Common Ground: The Weekly Torah Portion Through the Eyes of a Conservative, Orthodox, and Reform Rabbi. Jason Aronson. p. 50. ISBN9780765759924.
^Zvi Kolitz (1993). Confrontation: The Existential Thought of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik. KTAV Publishing House. p. 50. ISBN9780881254310.
^Ze'ev Maghen (2006). After Hardship Cometh Ease: The Jews as Backdrop for Muslim Moderation (reprint ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 117. ISBN9783110184549.
^John R. Kohlenberger (2004). Kohlenberger, John R. (ed.). The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible: New King James Version, English Standard Version, New Living Translation, the Message. Oxford University Press. p. 77. ISBN9780195281781.
^Eli Yassif (2009). The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning. Indiana University Press. p. 13. ISBN9780253002624.
^Joseph Barker (1854). Seven Lectures on the Supernatural Origin & Divine Authority of the Bible. By J. Barker. Containing his reply to the Rev. Mr. Sergeant, etc. George Turner. p. 87.
^Peter L. Berger (2014). Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (2, reprint ed.). Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN9783110354003.
^Horst Woldemar Janson, Anthony F. Janson (2004). History of Art: The Western Tradition "The Vienna Genesis ... (In the center foreground, for example, we see him wrestling with the angel, then receiving the angel's blessing.)" [full page illustration]
^Dohna Schlobitten, Yvonne (2020). La lotta di Giacobbe, paradigma della creazione artistica. Cittadella. pp. 7–21. ISBN978-8830817326.
^Anne Walters Robertson (2002). Guillaume De Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works, p. 163. "Drawn from the Genesis story of Jacob's wrestling match with the angel, Vidi dominum is a favorite phrase for theologians wishing to express their ecstasy at the moment of sight of God."
^"The text of the tenor for Machaut's motet 15 comes from the third nocturn at Matins on the second Sunday of Lent. Its biblical provenance is Genesis 32: 30. Here Jacob, after having wrestled with the angel and received both a new name (Israel) and a divine blessing, exclaims: 'Vidi dominum facie ad faciem; et salva facta est anima mea' (I have seen the Lord face to face; and my life is preserved.) Kevin Brownlee, "Machaut's Motet 15 and the Roman de la Rose: The Literary Context of Amours Qui a Le Pouoir/Faus Samblant M'a Deceü/Vidi Dominum*, in Iain Fenlon, ed. (2009), Early Music History 10: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, p. 14. "The final lines of the paired poems, in which the speaker bemoans his ruin (triplum) and bad treatment (motetus) are opposed to Jacob's wrestling with the angel that lead to his blessing and re-naming as Israel...." Margaret Bent, "Deception, Exegesis and Sounding Number in Machaut's Motet 15," in Iain Fenlon, ed. (2009), Early Music History 10: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music, p. 25.
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