Jacob's Ladder (disambiguation)

Jacob's Ladder is a staircase to heaven from a dream of Jacob described in the Book of Genesis.

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

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", a 1978 song by Cedar Walton from Animation
• "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 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

Places

Australia

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

New Zealand

• Jacobs Ladder Bridge, a bridge between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland
• Jacob's Ladder, a public flight of steps in St Clair, Dunedin

United Kingdom

• Jacob's Ladder, Derbyshire 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 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
• Jacob's Ladder, a flight of granite steps in Falmouth, Cornwall
• Jacob's Ladder, a stone staircase in Ramsgate, Kent linking the cliff top to the harbour
• Jacob's Ladder, a concrete staircase in Aberdeen, Scotland providing access to Grandholm Bridge & Grandholm Mill from Woodside, Aberdeen

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
• Jacobs Ladder (exercise machine), a self-paced climbing machine
• Jacob's ladder (flower), a genus of flowering plants
• Jacob's ladder (knife), 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, 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
• Frenum ladder or Jacob's ladder, a series of frenum piercings from the head to shaft of a penis

See also

• Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament