A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness, The
- Heart of Darkness
- Hell Gate
- Hills, The
- Hireling, The
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Holy Baptism (II)
- Holy Innocents, The
- Holy of Holies, The
- Holy sonnets
- Holy War, The
- I am the Way
- I do not believe that David killed Goliath
- I went to heaven
- I will lift up my eyes unto the hills
- Ichabod
- If it chance your eye offend you
- In death Divided
- In Salem dwelt a glorious king
- In the beginning
- In the beginning was the [3Word3]
- In the Wilderness
- In time of 'The Breaking of the Nations'
- Incarnation and Passion, The
- Iniquity of the fathers upon the children, The
- Isaac's Marriage
- Isle of Patmos, The
- Jacob
- Jacob
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jacob's Ladder, The
- Jacob's Wives
- Jehovah-Jireh
- Jehu
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jericho
- Jerusalem the golden
- Jesus
- Jesus and his Mother
- Jesus weeping
- Jesus weeping
- Job
- Job I
- John
- Jonah
- Jordan
- Joseph
- Joseph's Coat
- Joshua at Schechem
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Jacob
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Jacob was a patriarch, the father of Joseph. He was also known under the name of 'Israel'. The poem refers to Jacob's deathIn the Old Testament the son of Isaac and Rebekah and twin brother of Esau. He wrestled with God and was often devious.
The principal ancestors of the Israelites: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
In the Old Testament the son of Isaac and Rebekah and twin brother of Esau. He wrestled with God and was often devious.
1. Genesis indicates that death was not part of the orginal plan for human beings but is one of the consequences of the Fall.
2. The death of Jesus is presented as opening up the possibility of reconciliation with God.
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