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  2. Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    Picture of the Jacob's Ladder in the original Luther Bibles (of 1534 and also 1545). Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב ‎, romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).

  3. Jacob's Ladder (1990 film) - Wikipedia

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    Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film [4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin.The film stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American postman whose experiences before and during his military service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him.

  4. Ladder of Jacob - Wikipedia

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    The Ladder of Jacob is based on the Biblical dream of Jacob in Genesis 28:11–19. Chapter 1 is an expansion of the narrative of Genesis. Jacob falls asleep and sees a ladder set up on the Earth; the top of it reaches to heaven with angels ascending and descending on it. Many details are added to the Genesis narrative: the ladder is made of ...

  5. Jacob's Ladder (2019 film) - Wikipedia

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    Jacob's Ladder is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Jeff Buhler and Sarah Thorp. A remake of the 1990 film of the same name, it stars Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie, Karla Souza, and Guy Burnet.

  6. Jacob's ladder (toy) - Wikipedia

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    A Jacob's Ladder unfolded Watch toy in action (Ogg Theora format, 1.7 MB) A Jacob's ladder (also magic tablets, Chinese blocks, and klick-klack toy [1]) is a folk toy consisting of blocks of wood held together by strings or ribbons. When the ladder is held at one end, blocks appear to cascade down the strings.

  7. Film Review: ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ - AOL

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    It’s understandable that someone would want to remake "Jacob’s Ladder," Adrian Lyne's 1990 head-trip thriller about a Vietnam veteran haunted by fragmentary nightmare visions. I was far from ...

  8. Electric arc - Wikipedia

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    A time exposure of a Jacob's ladder A demonstration of Jacob's ladder Jacob's ladder at work. A Jacob's ladder (more formally, a high voltage travelling arc) is a device for producing a continuous train of electric arcs that rise upwards. The device is named for the Jacob's Ladder leading to heaven as described in the Bible. Similarly to the ...

  9. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder is sung as a call-and-response. The first two lines ("We are / climbing") are call-and-response, while the third line ("Jacob's ladder") is sung together. The first three lines are repeated, followed by a new call-and-response seventh line ("Soldier"), and then an eighth line ("of the cross") sung together.