GENESIS 37. JOSEPH EXCITES THE HATRED OF HIS BROTHERS, AND IS IN CONSEQUENCE CARRIED AWAY INTO EGYPT. With this chapter we begin the story of Joseph and his Brothers which (apart from Genesis 38, Genesis 49:1) fills the rest of the book. It is at once the most artistic and the most fascinating of OT... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSEPH HATED BY HIS BROTHERS ON ACCOUNT OF HIS TALEBEARING, HIS FATHER'S Partiality, AND HIS DREAMS OF SUPREMACY. Genesis 37:1_ a_ is certainly from P, but probably Genesis 37:2 b also. It gives a third reason for the hatred which Joseph excited; the rather priggish Joseph tells tales to Jacob about... [ Continue Reading ]
Some assign to J; more probably it belongs to J and E. To J Genesis 37:12_ a_, Genesis 37:14_ b_; to E Genesis 37:13_ b_, Genesis 37:14_ a_ may be allotted. Genesis 37:15 may belong to either. Shechem has fine pasturage, Dothan (p. 30, 2 Kings 6:13 *), 15 miles N. of it, still finer.... [ Continue Reading ]
To J we may assign Genesis 37:18_ b_ (and before, etc.), Genesis 37:21 (substituting Judah for Reuben), Genesis 37:23; Genesis 37:25; Genesis 37:27 (and sold to silver), to E Genesis 37:18_ a_, Genesis 37:19 f., Genesis 37:22;... [ Continue Reading ]