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The Story Beyond the Vale of a Boy Called Joseph

Mrs. Jeba Regis P J., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

Joseph had packed his bags; prepared to visit his brothers in obedience to his father's instructions. Jacob wanted his sons to be well cared for, and he sends Joseph to the ten siblings with food. At this juncture of the unknown and the uncertain place of hills, a certain man helps him with directions to his brothers’ whereabouts. Familial love, relationships and passion lie at the vale of the stories webbed in Joseph's family.

Keywords: Joseph, Israelites, love, family, dreams

Dreams

It was for his dreams that his brothers resisted him. Joseph's dreams of success were beautiful. Innocent as he was, he could not understand the grief, sadness, jealousy and rivalry of the men who had laboured. Joseph loved his family very much. It was this innocent love that bound him close at heart to faithfulness. The bygone days were bygones and Joseph now had a new family. It was in his home in Egypt, he had two children and his wife was a young woman called Asenath. She was the daughter of Potiphera, a priest. It was this innocent love with family that bound him and made him soar. Joseph was noted for his accuracy of translating prophetic dreams and visions and this superior skill granted by the Creator elevated him from the pits of the jail in Egypt to the second to rule Egypt. He has a family and, he is set out to regain the family of his birth. He was thirty.

Some of his dreams were beyond the ordinary -- but the audience - his brothers - was booing him away. Joseph was like a comedian before his brothers; betrayed by his brothers -- in comparison to lovers betrayed. Moses writes of Pharoah's dreams, "there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fat fleshed; and they fed in a meadow. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and lean fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river" (44). The ‘comedian's’ interpretation: there would be seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Egypt. Joseph recommended a season of gathering to belittle the season of famine - of the butler's dream: "a vine was before me; And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharoah's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand" (44). The dream of crows eating up the baker's special food in the three baskets -- Joseph's talent for interpreting dreams of the imprisoned servants of Pharaoh was quite special. He could interpret dreams with the help of the Creator in him -- he was very much true and exact in his translation of events to occur for those who were with him -- of his father, mother and siblings, Pharaoh, the butler and the baker.

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Mrs. Jeba Regis P J
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Tirunelveli 627012
Tamilnadu
India
jebaregisprabhaharan@gmail.com

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