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Chung, Il-Seung
Il-Seung Chung is currently a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Dominican Biblical Institute (University of Limerick) in Ireland. He completed his Ph.D. at University of Sheffield
2011 0-7734-3670-7Traditional interpretations of Esau in Jewish and early Christian literature have provided a negative portrayal of Esau and contemporary Genesis commentators tend to interpret Esau as cruel, stupid, and impulsive, having no concern for the family tradition or the future legacy. The present book revisits these negative perceptions of Esau and rereads the texts according to the sequence of the Jacob-Esau narrative.