{"product_id":"going-up-and-going-down","title":"Going Up and Going Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGoing Up and Going Down \u003c\/i\u003eYitzhak Peleg argues that the story of  Jacob’s dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a \u003ci\u003emise en abyme\u003c\/i\u003e – something in miniature that reflects the larger structure of the whole. Close examination reveals that focusing on the vision of  Jacob’s dream and understanding it as a symbolic dream facilitates an  explanation of the dream and its meaning.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholars have  historically classified the dream as theophany, the purpose of which is  to explain how Beth-El became a sacred place, and as such the vision in  Jacob’s dream is generally accepted as merely ornamental, or even  lacking a message in itself. Whilst Peleg does not contradict or seek to  go against identification of the dream as theophany, he sees a more  nuanced purpose behind its presentation. Peleg’s proposal is that the  description of the vision, and especially that of the movement of the  angels, is not embellishment, supplementation or scenic background, of  God’s message, but that it directly symbolizes the path taken by the  Patriarchs to and from the Promised Land. Furthermore, the narrative  context and visual description in the dream in which ‘Angels of God were  going up and down it’ appears when Jacob is on his way to Harran, that  is to say, when he is about to leave Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222616756568,"sku":"9780567672445","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780567672445_37ced820-db06-428e-a643-35dc0218683d.jpg?v=1770273917","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/going-up-and-going-down","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}