And his father wept for him (vayevk oto aviv) (Genesis 37:35). At the very instant that Jacob, seeing Joseph’s bloodied cloak, concludes that his son is dead, the world divides into two ...

Main Street Studios in Fredonia will be closing out its regular season this month, with the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice ...

As the story of Joseph and his brothers reaches its dramatic climax ... One unanswered question is how much did our father Jacob really know about the events previously described in the Torah ...

As Genesis ends with Joseph welcoming his family to Egypt, both Scripture and art point to a deeper truth: the path to ...

The Bible explicitly tells us that Joseph was the favorite of his father Jacob. The cloak of many colors designated his heir-apparent status, even though he was not the oldest. Joseph exacerbated ...

And if truth be said, in Jacob’s own words, he never got over his image of himself as a bereaved father, even when Joseph was restored to him, hence his words to Pharaoh, “Few and hard have ...

Set on a backdrop depicting the Egyptian desert, the two-act musical masterpiece of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice brings to life the Biblical story in Genesis of Joseph and his father Jacob ...

“Sha la la, Joseph, you’re doing fine! You and your dreamcoat, ahead of your time!” One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a ...

Joseph, who helps his older brothers tend the sheep, regularly brings back reports of their bad behavior to their father. Jacob loves Joseph best of all his children and shows it by giving him a ...

But eventually, Rachel and Jacob produced two children, Joseph and Benjamin. Repeating his father’s mistake of loving one child, “the child of his old age” to the detriment of the others ...