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The History of God
FIELD No. F606
Visual depiction of Genesis 32

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

Genesis 32

the divine figure touching Jacob's hip socket as dawn breaks

the patriarch's leg wrenching, the price of the blessing paid in the body

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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