Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.

In 1934, Erich Neumann, considered by many to have been Carl Gustav Jung’s foremost disciple, sent Jung a handwritten note: “I will pursue your suggestion of elaborating on the ‘Symbolic Contributions’ to the Jacob-Esau problem . . . The great difficulty is the rather depressing impossibility of a publication.” Now, eighty years later, in Jacob and Esau: On the Collective Symbolism of the Brother Motif, his important work is finally published. In this newly discovered manuscript, Neumann sowed the seeds of his later works. It provides a window into his original thinking and creative writing regarding the biblical subject of Jacob and Esau and the application of the brother motif to analytical psychology. Neumann elaborates on the central role of the principle of opposites in the human soul, contrasting Jacob’s introversion with Esau’s extraversion, the sacred and the profane, the inner and the outer aspects of the God-image, the shadow and its projection, and how the old ethic—expressed, for example, in the expulsion of the scapegoat—perpetuates evil. Mark Kyburz, translator of C. G. Jung’s The Red Book, has eloquently rendered Neumann’s text into English. Erel Shalit’s editing and introduction provide an entrée into Neumann’s work on this subject, which will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from lay persons to professionals interested in Jungian psychology and Jewish and religious studies. Erich Neumann was born in Berlin in 1905. He emigrated to Israel in 1934 and lived in Tel Aviv until his death in 1960. For many years he lectured and played a central role at Eranos, the seminal conference series in analytical psychology. His writings include Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, The Origins and History of Consciousness, and The Great Mother. The correspondence between C. G. Jung and Neumann was published in 2015. Dr. Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Israel and founding director of the Analytical Psychotherapy Program at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of several books, including The Cycle of Life and The Hero and His Shadow. Dr. Mark Kyburz specializes in scholarly translation from German into English and is the co-translator of C. G. Jung’s The Red Book (2009). He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland.

Esau made his mistakes but he rose up to recover to the best of his ability such that in his lifetime, he never lived subject to Jacob as predicted. He proved that set-backs do not always deny one success. He played the card of care for his father to survive. He made his father his hero as long as he lived and it paid-off greatly. He identified the land allotted to him which he claimed God s help to claim from the original inhabitants. He started life as a hunter and ended as a successful shepherd when he took over his father s flocks. He was so successful that he started his kingdom long before Jacob who had the divine mandate.

Similarly, Jew-hatred was not as mysterious or incomprehensible as often presented; its strength in some countries and weakness in others may be related to the fluctuating and sometimes quite different perceptions in those countries of the meaning of the rise of the Jews in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

"A sound piece of work. Its holistic, final-form approach reflects the major trend in biblical criticism. It is perceptive, sensitive, thoughtful and stimulation".---David Gunn Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary

The prophet Daniel, of the twelve tribes a chief, then a king in Babylon, about a biblical childrens book.

For many, the story of the man Esau in the Bible teaches some basic lessons of life, such as the idea that our value systems must be upheld with the highest regards; never should we sacrifice those values for some ephemeral gratifications. But further study of the life of Esau reveals positive leadership principles that can be learnt from his life. The first glance at the title of this book may beg the question: can something good come out of Nazareth? This is a question that Nathanael put to Philip in John 1:43-46.This question can be turned around: can something good be learnt from the life of Esau? Even after despising his birthright and attempting to chase after the lost blessings in vain, Esau still ended up amazingly as an enviable success instead of the expected doomed future. Esau had a celebrated future for he told his brother Jacob: "And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself" (Genesis 33:9 KJV). Furthermore, it was stated that "for their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle" (Genesis 36:7 KJV). What leadership principles Esau applied that positively turned his life around and brought about such a celebrated future. This book seeks to help you discover these principles.