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The Prayer of Joseph is a pseudepigraphic writing (a text whose claimed authorship is unfounded) of the Old Testament. It was composed either in Aramaic (if Jewish) or in Greek (if Christian) in the 1st century AD. [1] The text is almost lost and only a few fragments have survived in ancient quotations concerning the Biblical patriarch Jacob.
Joseph ( / ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized : Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [ 2][ a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the ...
The Joseph Smith Translation (JST), also called the Inspired Version of the Holy Scriptures (IV), is a revision of the Bible by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, who said that the JST/IV was intended to restore what he described as "many important points touching the salvation of men, [that] had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled".
Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914) The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1962) Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Joseph in Egypt (1978, TV episode) Animated Stories from the Bible: Joseph in Egypt (1992, TBN, TV episode) Joseph (1995) (TNT Bible Series) Slave of Dreams (1995) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999) Joseph: King of ...
Laban first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 24:29–60 as the grown spokesman for his father Bethuel 's house; he was impressed by the gold jewelry given to his sister on behalf of Isaac, and played a key part in arranging their marriage. Twenty years later, Laban's nephew Jacob was born to Isaac and Rebekah.
In Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Potiphar is a tycoon of ancient Egypt who made his wealth through buying shares in pyramids ("Potiphar had made a huge pile, owned a large percentage of the Nile"). His wife is a seductive man-eater. Both feature in the song "Potiphar".
A Christian depiction of Josaphat, 12th century manuscript. Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, [ 1] who historically lived several centuries before Jesus (and thus before Christianity). Their story tells of the conversion of Josaphat to ...
The Story of Sinuhe (also referred to as Sanehat or Sanhath) [ 2] is a work of ancient Egyptian literature. It was likely composed in the beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty after the death of Amenemhat I (also referred to as Senwosret I). The tale describes an Egyptian man who flees his kingdom, and lives as a foreigner before returning to Egypt ...