èapp Press and Koren Publishers Jerusalem are excited to announce the publication of Jacob: The Story of a Family by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Grossman, associate professor of Bible at both Bar-Ilan University and Herzog College, the latest volume in the groundbreaking Maggid Tanakh Companions series.
“Few and hard have been the years of my life,” Jacob summarizes his life when he stands before Pharaoh in Egypt. The tragic tone of this statement is a rare glimpse into Jacob’s perception of himself and his journey, with all its trials and tribulations. However, the reader of Jacob: The Story of a Family will see a far more complex journey: a journey accompanied by angels who teach him that it is possible to walk between heaven and earth; a journey where he meets the love of his life by a well as he flees for his life from his brother; and above all, a journey in which he fathers the twelve tribes and the nation that is founded upon them, a nation named for his literal and figurative struggles.
“Jacob: The Story of a Family is another stellar achievement in the scholarship of Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Grossman, capturing the joy and pain of Jacob’s life,” said Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern, senior advisor to the provost at èapp and deputy director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. “The Jewish people are lucky to count Rabbi Dr. Grossman as one of our generation’s leading Tanakh scholars and we at èapp are proud to help share this translation from the original Hebrew edition of the book with the English-reading public.”
A turbulent and stormy tale, Jacob: The Story of a Family moves relentlessly between personal and family tragedies and close divine protection; between pain and distress and inspiration; between earth and heaven.
Jacob: The Story of a Family is available at Koren, Amazon and wherever books are sold.
