A STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF JOSEPH

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Abbreviations

I. THE PRESENT CONTEXT OF THE JOSEPH STORY

Preface

The Judah-Tamar Interlude

The Theophany to Jacob and the Genealogy

The Blessings of Jacob

The Conclusion to the Book of Genesis

II. THE SYNTAX OF THE JOSEPH STORY

The Glosses of the Joseph Story

Word Order in the Verbal Clause

Word Order in the Nominal Clause

Word Order in the Participial Statement Clause

The Asyndeton Clause

The Bound Clause

The Verbal Noun

The Uninflected Verbal Morpheme

III. LEXICOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Idiomatic Usage

Words and Expressions Occurring in Late Hebrew or Aramaic

IV. THE JOSEPH STORY AS LITERATURE

The Joseph Story a Märchen-Novelle

The Unifying Role of Joseph’s Dreams

Plot Symmetry

Irony in the Joseph Story

The Pace of the Action

Recapitulation

Embellishment

The Motifs of the Joseph Story

V. SOURCE ANALYSIS: ONOMASTICON

Onomasticon

1. Divine Names and Epithets

Excursus: Divine Names in Egyptian Literature

2. Names of the Father in the Joseph Story

3. Names of the Good Brother in the Joseph Story

4. Identity of Joseph’s First Master

VI. SOURCE ANALYSIS: PLOT AND STYLE

Details of the Plot

Redundancy

Style

VII. SOURCE ANALYSIS: CONCLUSIONS

The Original Joseph Story

The Work of the Genesis Editor

The Hero of the Märchen in Folkloristic Adaptations

Synopsis of Conclusions

VIII. THE EGYPTIAN BACKGROUND OF THE JOSEPH STORY

Introduction

The Egyptian colouring of the story

Conclusions

IX. THE DATE OF COMPOSITION.

Discrepancies in the early Traditions

J and E in the story of Joseph

Bibliography

Indexes