


A Romance for the (Literal) Ages
Comparative
commentary by Belle Tindall
… Genesis 29, the rather spectacular meeting of Jacob and Rachel at an … wider still. Robert Alter has identified Genesis 29 as a betrothal ‘type scene’: a scene which has been composed … expectations and understanding (Alter 1996: 152–53). According to Alter (1981: 47–62), there are (at least) three of …