Endnote 2 – Whose Earrings Did Jacob Bury?

Nahum M. Sarna, for example, writes that the earrings “are no ordinary pieces of jewelry but talismans adorned with pagan symbols” (The JPS Torah Commentary, Genesis/tyvarb [Philadelphia/New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1989], p. 240) and Moshe Weinfeld observes that “as in the case of other pieces of jewelry, earrings…were often made in the shape of small figurines which also served as amulets” (Olam ha-Tanakh 1: Beresûit [Tel Aviv: Davidson-Iti, 1993], p. 197).