Tag: Joseph

• A Boring Christmas Genealogy?

  Why does the Bible contain lists of ancestors which are hardly enthralling? One, in 1st Chronicles, is 9 chapters long, making the book chronic-ally unappealing! Their purpose is establishing legitimacy. The king in Jerusalem, had to be a proven descendant of King David; a Temple priest had to be a descendant of Aaron, Moses’ brother. …

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  11th Dec 2022

  Christianity, Christmas, History, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Genealogies, God, Gospel, Joseph, Matthew, Messiah, Nativity, Numbers, Story, Women

• Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours

  Whereas the earlier stories in Genesis, from Abraham to Jacob, seem stitched together by assembling individual tales to suggest a chronological narrative, the Joseph Story seems more like a brief, carefully constructed novel, described by Prof. John Collins of Yale Divinity School, as “a superb example of early prose fiction“. It’s built around a number…

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  6th Jun 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Dreams, Egypt, Genesis, Joseph, Many Colours, Pharaoh