Jacob's ladder (Biblical dream)
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found: Work cat.: Kaufmann, Eva-Maria. Jakobs Traum und der Aufstieg des Menschen zu Gott, c2006:t.p. (das Thema der Himmelsleiter in der bildenden Kunst des Mittelalters)
found: Catholic encycl., 1913:under Jacob (he had at Luza the vision of angels ascending and decending by a mysterious ladder which reached from earth to heaven) under Interpretation of dreams (dream of Jacob at Bethel)
found: De Capoa, Chiara. Old Testament figures in art, 2003:p. 116 (Jacob dreams of a ladder to heaven; a flight of steps that leads from earth to heaven with angels climbing and descending in both directions; at the top of the ladder is the Lord; variants: Jacob's ladder)
found: Xrefer plus, Oct. 5, 2006, search of Amer. heritage dict. of the Eng. lang., 2003(Jacob's ladder; from the ladder seen by the biblical patriarch Jacob in a dream (Genesis 28:12))
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2006-12-15: new
2008-01-05: revised
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