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Death of Rachel

Photographer
Date
  • 1900/1940
Description
  • When they came nigh to Bethlehem, the beloved wife for whom he had served fourteen years, died in the pangs of motherhood, and was buried upon a green slope of the roadside. This is the way one of our great artists has pictured the deathbed. There is something remarkable, something inexplicable, that a man of Jacob's wealth should have buried his beloved in such an exposed and public place, and entirely among strangers, when Machpelah the Sepulchre, of his ancestors, was at Hebron, only a few miles away. Long after this, when he was about to die in Egypt, Jacob told his son Joseph the touching story of his mother's death and burial, and that makes it the more extraordinary that Joseph being the Lord of Egypt, a prince of vast power and wealth, did not transfer the remains of his mother on the highway to the family sepulchre, where Sarah, the wife of Abraham; Rebecca the wife of Isaac; and Leah, the unloved wife of Jacob lay. And we have no explanation of these singular circumstances. The tomb of Rachael, however, in this public place, was known and commemorated when Moses led the host of Israel out of the wilderness; nor has it been lost or overlooked, nor has its identity been questioned to the present hour.
Subject
Work Type
Identifier
  • P217:05:10
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Set 9 - Memories of Bethlehem
Institution
Submission Date
  • 09/08/2016
Modified
  • 05/27/2023
Collections

APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (19 Apr 2024). Death of Rachel Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715934q

MLA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Death of Rachel" Oregon Digital. 19 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715934q

Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Death of Rachel" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-19. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715934q

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df715934q | title= Death of Rachel |author= |accessdate= 2024-04-19 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Underwood & Underwood http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85188904
2 Christianity http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025219
3 lantern slides http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300134977
4 Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_217
5 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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