Assimilation Versus Separation : Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Political Consequences of a God-Centered Religion -- 1. No Foreigner Can Control Israel: The Wife-Sister Motif Prefigures the Joseph Stories -- 2. Survival Must Not Be Gained through Sin: The Moral of the Joseph Stories Prefigured through Judah and Tamar, Ruth and Naomi, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar -- 3. The Dreamer Is the Dream -- 4. Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Joseph and His Family -- 5. The Egyptianization of Joseph Compared to the Hebraicization of Daniel and Esther -- 6. Joseph the Administrator -- 7. If These Are Jacob's Blessings, What Would His Curses Be Like? -- 8. Why Joseph-the-Assimilator Is Superseded by Moses-the~Lawgiver -- 9. The Path Not Taken -- Index.

This book shows its readers the grand alternatives of Judaism, instilled in two larger-than-life figures, so its readers can reassess for themselves the road Judaism did not take, and understand why Joseph though admirable in many respects, is left out of the rest of the Bible.

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