013_Joseph the Grain God (Redo)

23/12/2016 37 min
013_Joseph the Grain God (Redo)

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Episode Synopsis

Genesis concludes with a novella about Joseph, a young man who is sold into slavery by his brothers only to rise above the adversity to rule over a pair of nations and save the world from starvation. Only the story is much deeper than that. It's a tale about theological clashes and staggering anachronisms and subtle literature. It's a tale of triumph and betrayal and redemption. But mostly it's about Egyptian and Canaanite gods and how those gods influenced the stories in the Hebrew Bible.