'What Profit for Us?': Remembering the Story of Joseph

by Barbara Green

Book Overview

This book offers a fresh reading of the biblical story of Joseph, alert to, and explicit about current literary methodology. Joseph is sold south by traders; then his brothers must go down to barter for food; and finally all his kin relocate in Egypt to survive famine. The relentless pull of the characters into various literal and figurative pits mingles with their struggles to emerge. The major mystery presented to both characters and readers--who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761805117
• ISBN13: 9780761805113
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.