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Three in our chapter are re-named with names they already bear.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first, in order of occurrence, is Ya’akov\/Yisra’el (Jacob\/ Israel). He was renamed “Yisra’el” by God’s messenger (\u201cthe man”) in 32:29 with the etymology for the new name given there as his \u201chaving bested man and divine being.\u201d Now, in 35:9-10, God blesses Ya’akov and again changes his name to Yisra’el, no etymology offered; no recognition of the textual fact that he’s “already been there, done that”. <\/span><\/p>\n

The second is God. The narrator here consistently uses “Elohim”, but God introduces Godself to Jacob thus: “I am El- Shaddai” (35:11), thereupon proceeding to bless him.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the same name by which God made introductions to Abra(ha)m, the \u00a0only time an introduction was offered to <\/span>him<\/span><\/i>: “I am El Shaddai, walk in my ways and be blameless” (17:2).<\/span> Both there and here that name accompanies blessings of fertility, and ownership of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interesting, because God <\/span>did<\/span><\/em> introduce Godself to Jacob previously, when he was fleeing Esau. Then he heard: “I am YHWH, the God of your father Abraham and the father of Isaac…” (28:13). Is that God’s name? Well, It’s <\/span>almost<\/span><\/em> how God had addressed Isaac: “I am the God of your father Abraham;<\/span> fear not”<\/span> (26:24). \u00a0Both times that name accompanies a promise of protection from danger.<\/span><\/p>\n

The third is the place, Beit-El \/ Bethel, “The abode of God”. Originally named Luz. Jacob had named the place “Beit-El” upon awakening from his dream of the ascending- descending angels, when escaping his brother’s wrath. Now, immediately after being blessed and renamed Yisra’el, and having God reintroduced as El-Shaddai, he renames the place in which all this occurs. God makes clear to Yisra’el, a man of a new essence, that their relationship has a new nature, expressed in the new-old name ‘El-Shaddai’, name of fertility and land, beyond the relationship with God as protector. The nature of this revelation is different from his prophetic dream 20 years before, and the place’s name needs to be infused with a new meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. Were this not enough, Benjamin is named twice upon birth: His mother called him “Ben Oni”, son of my suffering; but Dad named him Benjamin, son of Strength \/ right hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Rachel died in childbirth. 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