pages of the Bible to teach us how to deal with our problems. And we can successfully solve them if we will only implement the practical lessons that this man is here to teach.’ The problem with that approach is that it divorces the Bible character from the very context in which the Bible places him or her, namely, the context of redemption. We cannot accurately interpret any of the major characters of the Bible apart from that deliberate and definite context. So we take up the life of Joseph with