“... Jacob’s vision in Lad. Jac. 1 involves twenty-four human faces, one on each side of the twelve steps of the ladder, and the image of a terrifying face at the top of the ladder, an early indication of the later traditions about the figure of Jacob engraved on the divine throne in heaven. In Lad. Jac. 2 Jacob prays for an interpretation of his dream, and in chapter 3 he hears Sariel being instructed to interpret the dream. In chapter 4 Sariel changes Jacob’s name to Israel (“similar to my name”—Sariel), and in chapter 5 Sariel interprets the dream as a brief review of the history of Jacob’s descendants. Thus, for Lad. Jac. 5, the dream is “some sort of symbolic message about the future.” ...”