Contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT NOTICE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. FOREWORD
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. I:   The Favorite Son
  7. Why Jacob Loved Joseph Best
  8. Hebron
  9. In Jacob’s Tent
  10. Being Beautiful
  11. Favorites
  12. The Ten Brothers
  13. Tattletale
  14. In the Greater Scheme of Things
  15. The Coat of Many Colors
  16. On Edge
  17. The First Dream
  18. Later
  19. The Second Dream
  20. Not Happy
  21. The Last Straw
  22. Murder
  23. The Errand
  24. “Here Comes the Dreamer”
  25. In the Pit
  26. Learning Humility
  27. Celebration
  28. A Gradual Letting Go
  29. Caravan
  30. The Ishmaelites
  31. Beyond Comfort
  32. Leah
  33. II:  Judah and Tamar
  34. In Lieu of a Digression on Digressions
  35. Judah Departs
  36. Tamar
  37. Sheepshearing
  38. A Desperate Plan
  39. The Pledge
  40. Behind the Bushes
  41. Where Is the Harlot?
  42. The First Trimester
  43. Denouement
  44. III: In Potiphar’s Palace
  45. Sinai Journal
  46. Arrival in Egypt
  47. Sold
  48. Potiphar
  49. Joseph’s Ascent
  50. The Golden Touch
  51. The Great Commandment
  52. Pity
  53. A Brief Chapter of Transition
  54. Better Not
  55. Potiphar’s Wife
  56. Temptation
  57. A Clear No
  58. “Rape!”
  59. The Story Unravels
  60. The Insubstantiality of Should
  61. Dreams, Again
  62. The Butler’s Dream
  63. The Baker’s Dream
  64. A Broken Promise
  65. In Prison
  66. IV: Viceroy of All Egypt
  67. Pharaoh’s Dreams
  68. Indecipherable
  69. The Dream Interpreters Deliver Their Conclusions
  70. The Summons
  71. “Not I”
  72. Just One Meaning
  73. The Man
  74. In Charge
  75. God’s Little Joke
  76. Asenath
  77. Life with Asenath
  78. In-Laws
  79. Potiphar Again, and His Wife
  80. Why Joseph Sent No News Home
  81. Faith
  82. Famine
  83. V:  Joseph Reveals Himself
  84. In Canaan
  85. The Brothers Travel to Egypt
  86. Equanimity
  87. They Bow Down Before Joseph
  88. More Harsh Words
  89. “Let It Be Simeon”
  90. In the Cells
  91. Tears of Joy
  92. An Unwelcome Surprise
  93. Jacob’s Response
  94. “Take Him, If You Must”
  95. Gifts
  96. With the Steward
  97. Benjamin
  98. The Banquet
  99. The Silver Cup
  100. Found!
  101. How? Who? Why?
  102. Judah Reflects
  103. “I Am Joseph”
  104. Stupefied
  105. VI: The Way of Forgiveness
  106. No Blame
  107. A New Beginning
  108. Pharaoh Gives His Consent
  109. Back to Canaan
  110. Still Alive
  111. The Secret
  112. To Goshen
  113. Compassion
  114. Epilogue
  115. NOTES AND REFERENCES
  116. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  117. BOOKS BY STEPHEN MITCHELL
  118. PRAISE FOR JOSEPH AND THE WAY OF FORGIVENESS
  119. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  120. COPYRIGHT