GENESIS 37 end 1. JACBOS DREAMS a. Binding sheaves b. Sun and the moon and 11 stars c.

. Bowing down to him d. Inanimate objects e. Taking it literally: should we actually bow down to you 2. SELL JOSEPH IN TO SALAVERY = links to other family relation stories ie. Agamemnon hurting of families a. = links to other brother stories in the bible not specifically one against one but many against one i. aggressor of the brothers are kept anonamous b. Rubens doubt: participated in selling him into slavery: would he actually have return him to his father? i. Why include a character like this? c. Judah: dont kill him but let him die d. Own flesh therefore let us not lay our own hand upon him 3. WIFE ACCUSES JOESPH OF TRYING TO SLEEP WITH HER a. Deception of women = linked to other parts of the bible b. Cloak imagery returns = once again the cause of his demise ring structure 4. JOESPH GOES TO PRISON a. Continuing rise and fall of Jacob; most important thing is that he kept faith = link to job like a testing b. The keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in Josephs care because the lord was with him and whatever he did the lord made him prosper. 5. GAINS REPUTATION AS INTERPRETATER OF DREAMS a. Ring structure comes back to the dreams 6. JOSEPH WARNS AGAINST A GREAT FAMINE = link to prophecies in Agamemnon a. Both pharos dreams = weak inheriting from the strong b. Repetition of two dreams which both in effect say the same thing c. Ring structure d. Clothed in him fine linen = clothing has elevated status in this book

7. JOESPH TESTS HIS BROTHERS a. = Link recognition with odyssey = advantage lack of recognition can give you b. Key themes of punsihement and redemption i. Joseph plays the same game that God plays with the whole fo humanity with his brothers c. Joseph testing brothers = link to job differs in how much they deserve the punishment = sense of retribution Ruben and Judah feared retributive justice by egyptions d. Relevance of the fact that Judah was the one to sacrifice himself 8. REUINTED WITH FATHER a. Gain lots of possessions = ring structure

1. Are you indeed going to reign over us? Or are you indeed to have domionon over us (37.5) 2. how then can I do this great wickedness and sin from god (39.8) 3. Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive. (Genesis 46:1-34) 4. "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall. The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. (Genesis 49:22-26)