May 20, 2024

It’s been a while since we talked about Ishmael. The last time we saw him, he was with his half-brother Isaac burying their father Abraham in the cave of Machpelah (Genesis 25:9). A few generations have passed since that time, and now we have Isaac’s descendants conspiring to sell one of their brothers — Joseph […]

There are so many allusions to Christ from the story of Joseph that it would take a team of religious scholars to analyze them all (and they have). To save space, I’ll just mention a few of them here: Those are all worth digging into on your own time, but the salvation of Joseph begins