Joseph

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Joseph of Jacob

Wearer of the Coat of Many Colors, Many-Colored Coat

  • Fair is he, full bright
  • And wonderful of hue. The holy scribes
  • Tell us how Joseph’s many-colored coat,
  • Gleaming with varying dyes of every shade,
  • Brilliant, resplendent, dazzled all men’s eyes
  • That looked upon it. So the panther’s hues
  • Shine altogether lovely, marvelous,
  • While each fair color in its beauty glows
  • Ever more rare and charming than the rest.

(https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14529/14529-h/14529-h.htm - The Old English Physiologus - Albert S. Cook (2004))

Literary Form

Joseph's story (Genesis 37-50) resembles a hero story. He is the earliest example of the suffering servant biblical archetype.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 131-132)

Joseph the father of Jesus Christ

His genealogy includes the kings of Israel and Abraham. (Matthew 1:1-17)

Mary became pregnant while betrothed to Joseph, but an angel of the Lord informed him in a dream that He was the Holy Spirit's baby and to name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. When he awoke, he took his wife but kept her a virgin until His birth. (Matthew 1:18-25)

The magi followed the star to her child and fell down and worshiped Him, offering Him gifts. When they left, Joseph was warned by an angel in a dream to flee to Egypt, for Herod will try to destroy the child, so they departed by night. After Herod's death, an angel appeared in a dream to tell them to return to Israel. He feared Archelaus, so by dream warning, they settled in Nazareth in Galilee. (Matthew 2:7-23)

Joseph of Joseph

AKA Joses

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

Joseph is a dwarf that makes tombstones in Tarant. He's at 12 East End Avenue. (Joseph)

Joseph Conrad