Overcoming the Past

Linked from Essay III, Section 13: "…he, the great experimenter with himself, discontented and insatiable, wrestling with animals, nature, and gods for ultimate domination--he, still unvanquished…"

And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. And he saw that he had not won out against him and he touched his hip-socket and Jacob's hip socket was wrenched as he wrestled with him. And he said, 'Let me go, for dawn is breaking.' And he said, 'I will not let you go unless you bless me.' […] '[Y]ou have striven with God and men and won out.'"

Genesis 32:25-30

Reader's Question

• Nietzsche claims to admire the Hebrew Bible more than the Christian Bible. Does Jacob's story explain why?

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