A Portrait of Esav/2

A Portrait of Esav

Exegetical Approaches

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Innately Evil

Sources: Bavli Bava Batra16bAbout the Bavli, Pesikta DeRav Kahana3:1 ("Zakhor")About Pesikta DeRav Kahana, Targum NeofitiBereshit 25:34About Targum Neofiti, Targum Pseudo-JonathanBereshit 25:27-34Bereshit 26:34-35Bereshit 27:31Bereshit 32:7Bereshit 33:1-4About Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Targum YerushalmiBereshit 25:34Bereshit 32:7Bereshit 33:4About Targum Yerushalmi, Bereshit Rabbah63:6-14About Bereshit Rabbah, TanchumaToledot 8Vayishlach 4About the Tanchuma, Tanchuma (Buber)Toledot 2Toledot 3About Tanchuma (Buber), R. Saadia GaonCommentary Bereshit 25About R. Saadia Gaon, RashiBereshit 25:22Bereshit 25:27-28Bereshit 25:29Bereshit 25:32-34Bereshit 26:34-35Bereshit 27:5Bereshit 32:7Bereshit 32:12Bereshit 33:4About R. Shelomo Yitzchaki, ChizkuniBereshit 25:27About R. Chizkiyah b. Manoach, Minchat YehudaBereshit 25:27About R. Yehuda b. Elazar, RanDerashot HaRan 2About R. Nissim Gerondi, Abarbanel, SefornoBereshit 25:27-34Bereshit 26:35Bereshit 27:1Bereshit 32:7About R. Ovadyah Seforno, MalbimBereshit 27:1Bereshit 27:5About R. Meir Leibush Weiser

In utero

Hunter

"וַיִּבֶז עֵשָׂו אֶת הַבְּכֹרָה"

Yaakov and Esav's reunion

Esav's marriage

Yitzchak's preference for Esav

Esav's descendants

Mildly Negative

Sources: RadakBereshit 25:27-29Bereshit 25:31-34Bereshit 27:4Bereshit 32:7About R. David Kimchi,R. Avraham b. HaRambamBereshit 25:23Bereshit 25:27-29Bereshit 25:31Bereshit 26:34Bereshit 32:7About R. Avraham Maimonides, ?RambanBereshit 25:34Bereshit 32:8About R. Moshe Nachmanides, R. S"R HirschBereshit 25:27About R. S"R Hirsch

Not Wicked

Sources: JosephusAntiquities 1:18:1Antiquities 1:18:4-8Antiquities 1:20:1Antiquities 2:1:1About Josephus, RashbamBereshit 25:22,27-28Bereshit 25:31-34Bereshit 32:7-8Bereshit 32:21-29About R. Shemuel b. Meir, Ibn EzraBereshit 25:32-34Bereshit 27:40About R. Avraham ibn Ezra, R. Yosef Bekhor ShorBereshit 25:29-30Bereshit 25:34Bereshit 27:45Bereshit 32:7-8About R. Yosef Bekhor Shor, ShadalBereshit 25:31Bereshit 32:7About R. S.D. Luzzatto,