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Joseph and His Brothers (German: Joseph und seine Brüder, pronounced [ˈjoːzɛf ʊnt ˌzaɪ̯nə ˈbʁyːdɐ]) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis , from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period .
Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
Simeon is a son of Jacob and Leah, wickedest and wiliest of Joseph's half-brothers. Supporting. Reuben is the eldest son of Jacob and Leah, [fn 1] the only half-brother good to Joseph. Judah is the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Jacob is Joseph's father and that of his ten older half-brothers and younger brother Benjamin. Levi is the third son ...
Joseph identified by his brothers (1789 painting by Charles Thévenin). In the first reading, Judah approached Joseph, whom he likened to Pharaoh, and recounted how Joseph had asked the 10 brothers whether they had a father or brother, and they had told him that they had a father who was an old man (Jacob), and a child of his old age who was a little one (Benjamin), whose brother was dead, who ...
Joseph loves his brothers but feels that he is better than them. Their father, Jacob, loves Joseph the most because he is the son of Rachel, Jacob's greatest love. After Rachel died, Jacob kept Joseph close to remind him of his lost love. Joseph's brothers know that Jacob preferred Joseph over them and they hated the dreams Joseph would tell.
For the Torah (in Deuteronomy 24:7) says, "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel . . . and sell him, then that thief shall die," and yet Joseph's brothers sold their brother. [80] Joseph Sold by His Brothers (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company)
It is a tragic measure of his moral injury that Joseph may have felt the only way to end his pain was with reckless speed. Certainly he needed professional help, steady, insightful and caring. The VA has acknowledged its shortage of mental health therapists, and has hired 1,600 additional therapists in the past two years, but long waiting lists ...
Potiphar is also present when Joseph reunites with his brothers. In Joseph and his Brothers , Thomas Mann suggests that Potiphar's wife is sexually frustrated partly because Potiphar is a eunuch . In Margaret Atwood's The Testaments , the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Potiphar's wife is referred to in Chapter 46 of the Ardua Hall Holograph ...