Pathways Podcast

06: Jacob and Esau: A Trickster Tale Oct 30, 2019

06: Jacob and Esau: A Trickster Tale

This is week three of our “Kin-dom” unit and the Great Family of Genesis. Today we explore the story of Jacob and Esau as a Trickster Tale. Native American Theologians have seen a connection between the Biblical character of Jacob and the many “tricksters” found in American Indian legends. Byrd Gibbens says, “Many native traditions held tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise.” Let’s hear this Trickster Tale of sibling rivalry…