Jacob's Ladder is a staircase to heaven from a dream of Jacob described in the Old Testament. Jacob's Ladder may also refer to:

Film and television

* ''Jacob's Ladder'' (1990 film), a horror film * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (2019 film), a remake of the 1990 film * "Jacob's Ladder", an episode of the television series ''Rectify''

Literature

* ''Jacob's Ladder'' (Oppenheim novel), a 1921 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (Keaney novel), a 2005 novel by Brian Keaney * ''Jacob's Ladder'', a 1998 novel by Donald McCaig * ''Jacob's Ladder'', a 2003 autobiography by Colin Mackay * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (''Yakov's Ladder''), a 2015 novel by Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Music

* ''

Die Jakobsleiter ''Die Jakobsleiter'' (''Jacob's Ladder'') is an oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg that marks his transition from a contextual or free atonality to the twelve-tone technique anticipated in the oratorio's use of hexachords. Though ultimately unfinish ...

'', an early 1920s unfinished oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (the Filthy Tongues album) * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (Brad Mehldau album)

Songs

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We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder ''We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder'' (also known as ''Jacob's Ladder'') is an African American slave spiritual based in part on the Biblical story of Jacob's Ladder. It was developed some time before 1825, and became one of the first slave spiri ...

", a traditional African American slave spiritual * "Jacob's Ladder", a 1965 adaptation of "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" by the Staple Singers from '' Freedom Highway'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 1978 song by Cedar Walton from ''

Animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

'' * "Jacob's Ladder" (Rush song) (1980) * "Jacob's Ladder", a 1984 song by The Monochrome Set * "Jacob's Ladder" (Huey Lewis and the News song) (1987) * "Jacob's Ladder" (Mark Wills song) (1996) * " Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)", a 2002 song by Chumbawamba * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2003 song by Converge from ''

Unloved and Weeded Out ''Unloved and Weeded Out'' is a compilation by American metalcore band Converge, on January 28, 2003, through Deathwish Inc. ''Unloved and Weeded Out'' features 14 tracks, some of which were previously released rarities while others were previou ...

'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2005 song by Chimp Spanner from '' Imperium Vorago'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2005 song by Patrick Wolf from ''

Wind in the Wires ''Wind in the Wires'' is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf. Wolf cites Buffy Sainte-Marie as an influence on the album on his official Tumblr. Critical reception ''Wind in the Wires'' received general acclaim. ...

'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 song by Fucked Up from '' Hidden World'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 song by Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band from '' We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions'' * "Jacob's Ladder", a 2013 song by Terence Blanchard from ''

Magnetic Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particle ...

Places

Australia

* Jacob's Ladder, Brisbane, Queensland * Jacob's Ladder, a road to the top of Ben Lomond, Tasmania * Jacob's Ladder, Kings Park, Western Australia

New Zealand

* Jacobs Ladder Bridge, a bridge between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland

United Kingdom

Jacob's Ladder, Derbyshire Jacob's Ladder is a bridleway between Kinder Scout plateau and the hamlet of Upper Booth in the Vale of Edale, in the Derbyshire Peak District of England. In the 18th century Jacob Marshall farmed the land at Edale Head, at the top of what bec ...

a scenic path on Kinder Scout in the Peak District of England * Jacob's Ladder, a set of steps and a beach in Sidmouth, Devon, England * Jacob's Ladder, a scenic path in

Cheddar Gorge Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be 9,000 years ...

in Somerset, England * Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps at Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales * Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps in

Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

* Jacob's Ladder, a flight of granite steps in Falmouth, Cornwall

Overseas Territories

Jacob's Ladder (Saint Helena) Jacob's Ladder is a Grade I listed staircase leading from Jamestown, Saint Helena, up the side of Ladder Hill to Ladder Hill Fort. The name is a reference to the biblical Jacob's Ladder, a ladder extending to heaven. The ladder is all tha ...

, a Grade I listed staircase from Jamestown, Saint Helena, up Ladder Hill

United States

* Jacob's Ladder, a section of U.S. Route 20 as it crosses the Berkshire Hills between the towns of Chester and Lee in western Massachusetts * Jacob's Ladder Trail, a hiking trail to Lone Peak in Utah's Wasatch Range

Other uses

* Jacob's ladder (electrical), a device for producing high-voltage traveling arcs * Jacob's ladder (flower), a genus of flowering plants *

Jacob's ladder (knife) The "Jacob's ladder" is a type of pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment. The design presumably takes its name from the multi-jointed wooden toy a ...

, a three-part pocket knife * ''Jacob's Ladder'' (Moskos), a tempera painting by Elias Moskos * Jacob's ladder (nautical), specialized ladders used at sea * Jacob's ladder (toy), a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings *

Jacob's ladder surface In mathematics, Jacob's ladder is a surface with infinite genus and two ends. It was named after Jacob's ladder by Étienne , because the surface can be constructed as the boundary of a ladder that is infinitely long in both directions. See al ...

, a noncompact surface in mathematics * Jacobs's ladder, the European name for a solo string figure * Crepuscular rays or Jacob's Ladder, rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a point in the sky