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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...

in the piel form combined with the dreams have a counting or numbering aspect. The qal and niphal forms of ספר occur five times in Genesis, with the meaning “to count.”19 Joseph’s first dream causes his brothers to hate him even more. In this dream Joseph’s sheaf rises up (קמה, from קום), and the sheaves of his brothers gather around it and bow down (ותשׁתחוין, from חוה). The verb חוה is used 170 times in the Old Testament and 23 times in Genesis, and while the common meaning is “to bow down,” the
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