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Figuring Resurrection: Joseph as a Death & Resurrection Figure in the Old Testament & Second Temple Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The death and resurrection of Joseph. Towards the end of Genesis, the narrative slows down to tell the story of Joseph. There is no dispute that Joseph’s story is unique, but why does it deserve such focused attention? And how does this story relate to the rest of Genesis? In Figuring Resurrection, Jeffrey Pulse presents the view that Joseph is a death-and-resurrection figure. A close literary...

The next section of this book examines in greater detail the death-and-resurrection motif of Scripture and its many manifestations, especially Joseph’s place in this motif. Death and resurrection is arguably the most prevalent theme in the biblical narrative as it now stands; yet, due to its many manifestations and its pervasiveness in the fabric of the text, it is often overlooked. Even though the first explicit references to the resurrection of the body are in Isaiah 25–26, the language of Scripture
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