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"HOW CAN SOMEONE SELL HIS OWN FELLOW TO THE EGYPTIANS?"

"HOW CAN SOMEONE SELL HIS OWN FELLOW TO THE EGYPTIANS?" “HOW CAN SOMEONE SELL HIS OWN FELLOW TO THE EGYPTIANS?” by IGNACIO MÁRQUEZ ROWE Madrid I Israelites were not interested in the four hundred years or more they spent in Egypt. What they remembered, and memory is always deliberate, was their ancestors’ descent into Egypt following Joseph, and their departure from it under the leadership of Moses, what con- stitutes their national epic. This was the (de fi nitely shorter) part of the past they desired to keep in mind. Joseph’s entry into pharaoh’s land, however, was not voluntary. According to the transmitted story (Genesis xxxvii 26 ff .), he was sold by his brothers for twenty shekels of silver to nomadic traders (Ishmaelites or Midianites) who then carried him o ff and eventually sold him in Egypt to an o ffi cial called Potiphar. Because Israelites conceived, and narrated, their past as a contin- uum, the episode of Joseph’s sale in Egypt could be easily located along their history. This, of course, does not mean that the modern historian who wants to make use of the Old Testament narratives as documents can readily answer the question of the location in time of this episode, nor establish the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

"HOW CAN SOMEONE SELL HIS OWN FELLOW TO THE EGYPTIANS?"

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 54 (3): 335 – Jan 1, 2004

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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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10.1163/1568533041694582
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“HOW CAN SOMEONE SELL HIS OWN FELLOW TO THE EGYPTIANS?” by IGNACIO MÁRQUEZ ROWE Madrid I Israelites were not interested in the four hundred years or more they spent in Egypt. What they remembered, and memory is always deliberate, was their ancestors’ descent into Egypt following Joseph, and their departure from it under the leadership of Moses, what con- stitutes their national epic. This was the (de fi nitely shorter) part of the past they desired to keep in mind. Joseph’s entry into pharaoh’s land, however, was not voluntary. According to the transmitted story (Genesis xxxvii 26 ff .), he was sold by his brothers for twenty shekels of silver to nomadic traders (Ishmaelites or Midianites) who then carried him o ff and eventually sold him in Egypt to an o ffi cial called Potiphar. Because Israelites conceived, and narrated, their past as a contin- uum, the episode of Joseph’s sale in Egypt could be easily located along their history. This, of course, does not mean that the modern historian who wants to make use of the Old Testament narratives as documents can readily answer the question of the location in time of this episode, nor establish the

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Published: Jan 1, 2004

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