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“For trickster saves the world. The paradoxical trickster-creating order through chaos, the underdog that overcomes, the liminal role, and all the dangers associated with it, personified Israel. So in Exile when the canon is beginning to form, the Israelites tell of their ancestors as tricksters. For the trickster represents not only the threat of a marginalized existence, or the danger of the liminal status, but also the salvific role in which Israel still paradoxically believed it functioned.” BibleDeceptionTrickster Book:The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch Source: The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch