Martin Noth

In other words, has a prehistory.

And then Martin Noth comes in and says this was used politically to try to create unity between the southern and northern kingdoms.

And the different divine names represent the different theologies and an attempt to merge both of them.

And even in later biblical scholarship, Erhard Blum basically focused on this and showed how this little narrative is basically the glue which brings together the Jacob narrative and connects between the Jacob-Esau portion and the Jacob-Laban portion.