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The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob
The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob is a 1624 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Originally in the Spanish royal collection, it was sent to Germany by Maria Anna of Neuburg (wife of Charles II of Spain) to her brother Johann Wilhelm. It is now in the Staatsgalerie Schleissheim near Munich.
It shows the biblical story of meeting between Jacob and Esau. It was the model for a painting by Abraham Willemsen.
This painting was featured in Willem van Haecht's "Gallery of
wrote that the legend cycle of Jacob-Esau-Laban divided clearly into the legends (1) of Jacob and Esau ( ), (2) of Jacob and Laban ( ), (3) of the origin of the twelve tribes (), and (4) of the origin of ritual observances ( 22–32).
Professor Walter Brueggemann, formerly of Columbia Theological Seminary, suggested a chiastic structure to the Jacob narrative (shown in the chart below), moving from conflict with Esau to reconciliation with Esau.