Christian Bible (Old Testament)
Jacob the Challenger
by Random_Guise
One of the first ever mentioned wrestling matches, Jacob tries to go back home but encounters more than he bargained for. NOT written in Olde English. Nobody owns these characters.Genesis 32 gives us what must have been a wrestling match for the ages. Jacob is returning home to his birth family after spending many years accumulating wives, children and livestock and sends them ahead while he follows behind, alone. But he was neither following nor alone long when someone attempts to stop him. When I asked a Rabbi that was leading our study group why Jacob would just wrestle a stranger, he couldn't explain why; his reaction was more "Why wouldn't you?". I've never been content with that answer and the Bible doesn't give many details either, so my imagination kicked in with a way it probably DIDN'T go...