Joseph live out their lives in the stories of Genesis. The story of the Exodus is a never-ending series of shortages of food and water. As for that perennial favorite, the narrow escape, we find it repeatedly in the Bible—in the stories of Jacob and Elijah and David and Daniel, in the Gospels, in the Book of Acts. We should not minimize the element of physical conflict in the stories of the Bible; it is a major element in the stories, either as the thing that arouses our narrative interest or as