Jacob's melancholic descent from the ladder

Maimonides' use of a biblical persona to illustrate various aspects of prophecy or providence offers valuable material for constructing medieval psychological portraits of central biblical characters. Jacob, whose narrative life moves through a series of challenges posed by melancholia to the religious life, is particularly instructive. This study will assemble a Maimonidean construct of Jacob, which embodies Maimonides' juristic and philosophical conceptions of the emotions and their effects on intellectual and prophetic development. This is intended as a model for further Maimonidean and other medieval configurations of biblical personalities

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