Joseph the Dreamer
The Joseph Story Ep. 1
The Jewish scholar Jon Levenson has said that the Joseph story in Genesis “is arguably the most sophisticated narrative in the Jewish or the Christian Bibles.” Chris Green writes that it is “deceptively simple” and that it becomes “more mysterious with every good re-reading.” Taking these two thoughts together we see that the sophistication of the Joseph story is the reason why it becomes more mysterious the more you read it.
For many of us this will sound like an odd claim. The Joseph story, as most of us have been taught, is very simple and straightforward. It’s the…
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