The different usages of the names Jacob and Israel reflect a geographic divide between the northern and southern kingdoms’ stance toward this patriarch.Maybe, but there is little consensus among scholars these days about the nature, extent, and even existence of the putative Yahwistic (J) and Elohistic (E) sources in the Pentateuch. The essay does acknowledge this to some degree.
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