Tag: Many Colours

• 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…

  calgacus83

  6th Jun 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

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