from gunkel on genesis, translated by mark biddle, mercer press, 1997

• river fording reported twice
  
• opinon of most that 23-32 belongs to J
• Dillman claims it for E
• the name Israel moves b/w E and J sources
  
• Jacob traditionally means overcome by how "he smote the diety during the struggle" (346)
  
• a lack of coherence b/w 26a. 27-29
  
• "the diety appears at night dreadfully mysterious" (349)
  
• classical parrels to odyessus 11:23 )
  
• jacob as trickster figure (with the thigh smack
  
• jacob discerns hje is in the presence of a god (not G_D) (349)
• (my note: the angel does not know jacob, and the angel cowers (gunkel calls him a diety), means that the belessing is under duress--classical and near eastern parrells to dieties that disappear in the sunlight, that literally gain power thru darkness (VAMPIRES MOTHERFUCKER)
• "the fact that the deity evades the question concerning his name has a parrell in judges 13:17-18 and may be explained by the ancient belieg wide spread among many peoples that the knowledge of the name gives power over the bearer , even a god or demon. (350)
  
• formally a large amount of dual recession
  
• v 29 victorious
  
• v 31 Barely Escaped with his life
  
• v 25 the narrator/v 27 God reports that the dawn is breaking
• v 28 God asks Jacob his name
  
• v 30 Jacob asks God the same
  
• v 31 the narrator intentionally overrides the name of YHWH