A literary examination of the story of Jacob’s dream (Genesis 28.10-22), which shows that – when set against the Patriarch Narratives as a whole - it functions as a mise en abyme about the patriarch’s
In Going Up and Going Down Yitzhak Peleg argues that the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28.10-22), functions as a mise en abyme ('as a figure, trope or structure that somehow reflects in compact for