In Popular Culture
- Jacob Wrestling with the Angel is the subject of a 1940 sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
- It is a chapter in Herman Hesse's novel Demian (1919)
- It is mentioned in Dodie Smith's debut novel I Capture the Castle (1948).
- It was referenced in the 1990 play Angels in America by Tony Kushner. The version depicted on-screen was the 1865 version by Alexander Louis Leloir.
- It was mentioned in Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel" published in 1964.
- It is mentioned in the U2 song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
- It is mentioned in the Switchfoot song "Twenty-Four" on their 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown ("I wrestled the Angel, for more than a name").
- Gustave Dore's image is reenacted in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion by a film extra dressed as an angel and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
- It is referenced in Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, "The Man Watching" published in 1920.
- It is mentioned in Maud Hart Lovelace's novel Betsy's Wedding, first published in 1955.
- It is mentioned in Sheila Heti's novel, "How Should A Person Be?" published in 2012.
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