Patriarchs

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Explore 3,059 Jewish texts related to the theme of Patriarchs, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Korah's Transgression and Israelites

Book of Jasher Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The ancient Israelites certainly did! And this chapter of the Book of Jasher throws us right into the middle of their long, winding journey. Remember Korah's rebellion? The Book of...

Arad in Battle

Book of Jasher Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

That feeling of frustration, of being turned back just as you're reaching your goal... well, the Israelites knew it well. Chapter 85 of the Book of Jasher plunges us right into a m...

Joshua in Battle

Book of Jasher Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

And in Chapter 89, we find just such a song, bursting with praise and recounting God's powerful deliverance. "Then spoke Joshua this song," the text begins, "on the day that the Lo...

Edom in Battle

Book of Jasher Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

The Book of Jasher, an ancient text referenced in the Bible itself (Joshua 10:13, 2 Samuel 1:18), offers some fascinating glimpses. to Chapter 90 and see what's unfolding. The chap...

Adonibezek's Legacy

Book of Jasher Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

We read about the conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua, but the story doesn't quite end there. The Book of Jasher, a non-canonical Jewish text that fills in some of the gaps in...

Targum Jonathan on Genesis 32

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Laban arose in the morning, and kissed the sons of Jakob and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place. And Jakob went on his way, and the angel...

Targum Jonathan on Genesis 33

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And Jakob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men of war. And he divided the children unto Leah, and to Rahel, and to the two concubine...

Targum Jonathan on Genesis 36

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

These are the genealogies of Esau, who is called Edom. Esau took wives of the daughters of Kenaan, Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittah, and Ahalibama the daughter of Ana, the daug...

Targum Jonathan on Exodus 33

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Aggadah

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, Go, remove thee hence, lest My anger grow hot against the people, and I consume them. Therefore proceed thou, and the people whom thou didst bring u...