of thepharaohof Egypt by his interpretation of a dream and obtains ahigh placein the pharaoh’s kingdom. Hisacquisitionof grain supplies enables Egypt to withstand a famine. Driven by the same famine, his brothers journey fromCanaanto Egypt to obtain food. They prostrate themselves before ...
Death comes when it should, and at that time it can be welcomed. “There is a set number of souls, according to Pythagoras, that is available in the world at any one time. Killing oneself creates a gap by upsetting this mathematical equilibrium, and thus we must reject it.” (see ...
Such a genealogy sets a universal frame within which the subsequent role of Abraham, as the father of Israel’s faith, could assume its proper dimensions. The story of the Flood has close affinities with Babylonian traditions of apocalyptic floods in which Utnapishtim plays the part corresponding ...