Jacob and the divine trickster : a theology of deception and YHWH's fidelity to the ancestral promise in the Jacob cycle - Anderson, John E. (Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2011)
Introduction -- A trickster oracle : reading Jacob and Esau between Beten and Bethel (Genesis 25-28) -- Divine deception and incipient fulfillment of the ancestral promise (Genesis 29-31) -- Replaying the fool : Esau versus YHWH and Jacob (Genesis 32-35) -- Concluding remarks and prospects for further study.
Keywords: Jacob (Biblical patriarch)Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.Deception in the Bible