who wrote this in less time than Esau needed to build Rome. Gen. 32:16, listing the gifts that Jacob offered Esau when returning to the land of Israel from Mesopotamia, where he had established a ...

We all know the story: Esau is hungry and wants to buy a meal of bread and lentil stew. Jacob agrees, but only on one condition, Esau must first sell him his birthright. The story concludes with our ...

The fifth biblical man in this series is Jacob. Jacob is the second son of Isaac, and as such he started out without an inheritance of the promises given to Abraham and Isaac. When I think of Jacob, I ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 8 (Sale info: For Sale). "Genesis chap. XXIII, Ver. 4: 'And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him: and they wept. Ver.

Dillenberger, John, "Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work," San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1977. Art Journal (College Art Association), Winter 1963. Dillenberger, John, "Benjamin West ...