Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation)

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

• Jacob's Ladder (1990 film), a horror film
• Jacob's Ladder (2019 film), a remake of the 1990 film

Literature

• Jacob's Ladder (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

Music

• Die Jakobsleiter, an early 1920s unfinished oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg
• Jacob's Ladder (album), a 2016 album by the Filthy Tongues

Songs

• "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder", 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" (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
• "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
• "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 song by Fucked Up from Hidden World
• "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 adaptation of "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" by Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band.
• "Jacob's Ladder", a 2013 song by Terence Blanchard from Magnetic

Places

Australia

• Jacob's Ladder, Brisbane, Queensland
• Jacob's Ladder, a road to the top of Ben Lomond, Tasmania

New Zealand

• Jacobs Ladder Bridge, a bridge between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland, New Zealand

United Kingdom

• Jacob's Ladder, a scenic path on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, England
• Jacob's Ladder, a set of steps and a beach, in Sidmouth, Devon, England
• Jacob's Ladder, a scenic path in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England
• Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion, Wales
• Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps in Edinburgh, Scotland; see Hills in Edinburgh

Overseas Territories

• Jacob's Ladder (Saint Helena), 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 (knife), a three-part pocket knife
• Jacob's ladder (manifold), a noncompact surface in mathematics
• Jacob's ladder (nautical), specialized ladders used at sea
• Jacob's ladder (plant) or Polemonium, a genus of flowering plants
• Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), a ladder made of eight logs of gradually increasing height
• Jacobs's ladder (string figure), the European name for a solo string figure.
• Jacob's ladder (toy), a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings
• Crepuscular rays or Jacob's Ladder, rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a point in the sky

See also

• The Dream of Jacob, a 1974 orchestral work by Krzysztof Penderecki
• Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament