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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 28

the heavenly ladder seen from above

looking down on the sleeping Jacob below, the divine figure standing at the top of the stairway over the dark land

Organization: Hebrew Bible Theophanies
Time period: Bronze Age – Iron Age (mythic / Genesis–Kings narrative)
Location: Levant / Ancient Near East

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Biblical Scenes (Genesis–Kings I) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.