Synopsis The Joseph narrative in Genesis is stitched together with dreams—his own, the courtiers’, Pharaoh’s—yet the story itself unfolds according to the grammar of sleep.
Synopsis This essay begins from the dream-saturated narratives of Vayetze, Vayeshev, and Miketz—Jacob’s ladder, Joseph’s dreams, and the dreams of Pharaoh and his ministers—and asks
And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah. (Genesis 30:21) In my previous essay, “The Conflict Between Joseph And His Brothers—A Gender
The confrontation between Joseph and his brothers is one of the most troubling stories of the Bible. Joseph and his brother—twelve sons of Jacob—were the
In the Torah portion Miketz, Pharaoh has two dreams. He wakes up agitated and calls on all the wise men of Egypt to interpret his
The story of Joseph’s incarceration ends with his successful interpretation of the dreams of the Pharaoh’s chief butler and the chief baker. He ingeniously interpreted ordinary
In the Torah portion Vayeishev (Gen. 37:1–40:23), we read about Joseph interpreting dreams of the Pharaoh’s chief butler and the chief baker: And the chief butler told