Oral history could have easily passed directly from Adam to Lamech to Noah to Abraham to Jacob Abraham was born 1948 years after Creation, and the modern nation of Israel was born in 1948 A.D. Joseph was sold into slavery when he was 17 years old, and Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years A...
Although a small minority of scholars still argue that the story of Joseph was written in the monarchic period, the modern consensus seems to be that it dates to post-exilic times and is linked somehow to the Jewish diaspora in Egypt. The canonical narrative begins and ends with a focus on...
Serve faithfully where you are. As a young man, Joseph could not have known all that was ahead for him: being sold into slavery by his brothers, being wrongly accused, sent to prison, and then becoming second to Pharaoh in Egypt. But He was faithful to God in every situation. Likewise,...
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.” Obadiah 1:1...
Joseph Deharbe, S.J., A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion (New York: Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss, 1924), p. 279. And he also claims to be God………. “We [the popes] hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.” Christopher...
Joseph (Gen 37) where his ten brothers attempted to slay him and eventually sold him into slavery in Egypt. Dothan is also the city where this Syrian army encampment takes places and there is an attempt to capture Elisha and put him into bondage. Most experts claim Dothan means two wells...