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The History of God
FIELD No. D1B7
Visual depiction of Genesis 28

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 28

angels ascending and descending the shimmering stairway between heaven and earth

the LORD standing above it making promises to the sleeping Jacob

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.

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