1099
Joseph’s master finds his new servant indispensable, but unfortunately his wife finds him irresistible.
Young Joseph’s brothers have wearied of his dreams of glory and his position as their father Jacob’s favourite. So they have beaten him, stripped him of his fine coat, and sold him to a passing caravan of merchants bound for Egypt. The story for Jacob, however, is that a wild animal has killed his beloved son.
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Posted June 26 2017
1100
Pharaoh’s butler suddenly remembers his promise to mention Joseph to his master.
Joseph, sold into slavery in Egypt by his envious brothers, has been jailed by his master Potiphar on the malicious testimony of Potiphar’s wife. However, Joseph has become a popular trusty by interpreting troubling dreams on behalf of several inmates, including Pharaoh’s disgraced butler.
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Posted June 26 2017
1101
Joseph’s brothers are forced to travel to Egypt to buy corn, and the overseer of Pharaoh’s granaries recognises them at once.
Joseph has explained Pharaoh’s troubling dreams, and such is Pharaoh’s relief that he has appointed him to oversee the kingdom’s granaries. Now famine has brought Joseph’s brothers to Egypt to buy grain, but they have no idea that the aristocratic Egyptian before them is the brother they sold into slavery.
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Posted June 26 2017
1102
Joseph thinks that little Benjamin may provide the leverage he needs to force Jacob to come to Egypt.
The sons of Jacob have been to Egypt to buy corn during a famine, little knowing the lordly official in charge of the granaries there was the brother they sold into slavery years before. On returning home, they have discovered the money they thought they had paid to Joseph still in the sacks, and are bemused and frightened.
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Posted June 26 2017
1103
Jacob takes his whole family to join Joseph in Egypt, but God promises him that one day they will return to Canaan.
A famine in Canaan has brought Joseph’s brothers to Egypt to buy corn, but they do not recognise the brother they sold into slavery, now the lordly Overseer of Pharaoh’s granaries. As a practical joke, Joseph has sold them some corn but has also planted a silver cup on little Benjamin, and arrested him as a thief.
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Posted June 26 2017
1104
A literary man tries to trick Samuel Johnson into an honest opinion, which was neither necessary nor very rewarding.
James Macpherson published two poems, ‘Fingal’ in 1762 and ‘Temora’ a year later, which he said were translations of Irish oral tradition. He attributed them to Ossian, the legendary 3rd century Irish bard, who told of the ‘endless battles and unhappy loves’ of his father Fingal and son Oscar. Dr Johnson was, like most modern scholars, unconvinced.
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Posted June 24 2017