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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Thomas Romer, University of Lausanne] Egypt is omnipresent in the Hebrew Bible.
It is often a land of welcome. Abraham went there because of the famine in Canaan. as did Jacob and his son Joseph later on. It was also a land of asylum, attracting many political refugees. They always had relations with Egypt. Sometimes those relations were complicated; sometimes they were simple. But there were no real ideological issues, because in fact, there was not much talk in the Bible of the Gods of Egypt. So what is important with Egypt is that it was constantly in the minds of all the Biblical authors.
[Narrator] Joseph's STORY in Egypt begins at the end of Genesis,
the first book of the Bible.
Sold by his brothers to caravan drivers on their way to Egypt, he was bought by an officer,
and introduced into the Pharaoh's court where he became the GRAND VIZIER!
The Bible tells the STORY of his REMARKABLE FATE.
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