The connection between the writing of Genesis and the historical circumstances of Israel in Egypt is clear in the concluding paragraphs of Genesis. It reads like a well-written drama. Israel’s benefactor, their savior Joseph, dies as a prominent man in Egypt. He has wealth and prestige. He has an Egyptian wife and children. He would be embalmed and buried in style, according to Egyptian hope and custom. And yet Joseph looks beyond his earthly circumstances to the promise