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Preliminary material /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter One: The Present Context of the Joseph Story /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Two: The Syntax of the Joseph Story /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Three: Lexicographical Notes /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Four: The Joseph Story as Literature /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Five: Source Analysis: Onomasticon /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Six: Source Analysis: Plot and Style /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Seven: Source Analysis: Conclusions /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Eight: The Egyptian Background of the Joseph Story /Donald B. Redford -- Chapter Nine: The Date of Composition /Donald B. Redford -- Bibliography of Works Consulted /Donald B. Redford -- Indexes /Donald B. Redford.
This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10. Of interest to professors and students of humanities, religion, law; also religious professionals and laypersons interested in biblical studies.
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and leg
The story of Joseph is one of the most well known in the Bible, yet is rarely mentioned in Scripture outside the Book of Genesis. How then do we understand Joseph’s significance in redemptive history? Is Joseph, as has often been suggested, a type of the Messiah? From Prisoner to Prince offers a comprehensive commentary on the Joseph narrative, exploring both its function within the overall narrative of Genesis as well as how it is used by later Biblical authors. Samuel Emadi considers the literary and theological context in which Joseph’s story was first written, as well the intra-canonical development of the story via inner-biblical allusion and how it is referenced and alluded to with...
Within the context of the Torah, the Joseph story can be read as a transition that explains why Jacob and his family came to Egypt. However, if one looks at other texts of the Hebrew Bible, there is no mention of the Joseph story; instead, the arrival of the Israelites is said to be the result of the decision of a "father" or of "fathers" to go down do Egypt. Indeed, there are very few references to Joseph at all in the whole Hebrew Bible. Apparently, the Joseph story is not necessary for explaining why the Israelites found themselves in Egypt. The question therefore arises: Why was this story written, when, and for what audience? This volume offers an overview of the current discussion on the origins, composition, and historical contexts behind the Joseph narrative. There is a tendency to date the story (or its original version) to the Persian period, but this volume includes divergent voices about this issue. The volume also shows that scholarly discussion about the historical location of the Joseph story requires to bring together Egyptologists and biblical scholars.
The complex and dramatic story of Joseph is the most sustained narrative in Genesis. Many call it a literary masterpiece and a story of great depth that can be read on many levels. In a lucid and engaging style, Alan T. Levenson brings the voices of Philo, Josephus, Midrash, and medieval commentators, as well as a wide range of modern scholars, into dialogue about this complex biblical figure. Levenson explores such questions as: Why did Joseph's brothers hate him so? What is achieved by Joseph's ups and downs on the path to extraordinary success? Why didn't Joseph tell his father he was alive and ruling Egypt? What was Joseph like as a husband and father? Was Joseph just or cruel in testing his brothers' characters? Levenson deftly shows how an unbroken chain of interpretive traditions, mainly literary but also artistic, have added to the depth of this fascinating and unique character.
The last century has seen the demise of age-old Jewish communal life in the Arab world, and there is now a struggle to overcome a mutual lack of understanding between the West and the Arab-Muslim world. Over the course of past centuries, there was a great sharing of creative and scientific knowledge across religious lines. Stories about biblical figures held to be prophets by both Judaism and Islam are one result of this relationship and reflect an environment where not only literary genre and modes of interpretation but particular motifs could be utilized by both religious traditions. This book details this historical interdependence that reveals much about much about common experiences and concerns of Jews and Muslims. The author's rich analysis focuses on the nineteenth-century Judeo-Arabic manuscript. The Story of Our Master Joseph--a Jewish text taking its form from an Islamic prototype (itself largely based on midrashic, Hellenistic, and Near Eastern material) extending back to the earliest human stories of parental favoritism, sibling rivalry, separatism from loved ones, sexual mores, and the struggles for a continued communal existence outside the homeland.
A simple retelling of the Bible story in which a young man is sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt and eventually forgives them.
In this profoundly moving meditation on the character of Joseph in the book of Genesis, Sara Savage takes you on a journey of personal transformation. It is a journey that will lead you to new levels of emotional and spiritual understanding. Like Joseph, every human being needs to learn how to handle life's problems - whether threats to identity, relationship breakdown, depression, bereavement, stress, personal failure or other forms of suffering. Skilfully interweaving psychological and biblical insight, Sara Savage takes you deep into the mind and soul of Joseph as he lives and learns through these experiences. In doing so, she shows how, like Joseph, you too can make something beautiful out of the life that you have been given.