Joseph (Genesis)

Biblical figure, son of Jacob and Rachel and governor of Egypt during the late Hyksos dynasty

12th chapter of the Qur'an

thumb|Antoninianus of Postumus with Serapis on the reverse. Serapis or Sarapis is a Graeco-Egyptian god. A syncretic deity derived from the worship of the Egyptian Osiris and Apis, Serapis was extensively popularized in the third century BC on the orders of Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, as a means to unify the Greek and Egyptian subjects of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

Ephraim (; , in pausa: ʾEp̄rāyīm) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath, as well as the adopted son of his biological grandfather Jacob, making him the progenitor of the Tribe of Ephraim.

biblical figure

prophet and son of Jacob in Islam

Potiphar ( ; ; ) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. His name possibly indicates the same figure as Potiphera ().

character from the Old Testament (Genesis 39)

thumb|200px|Joseph and Asenath thumb|Joseph meets Asenath (1490s painting). Asenath (, ; Koine Greek: Ἀσενέθ, Asenéth) is a minor figure in the Book of Genesis. Asenath was a high-born, aristocratic Egyptian woman. She was the wife of Joseph and the mother of his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

romantic story

funerary monument in Shechem

one of the twelve tribes of Israel

biblical city and archaeological site

ancient narrative about the Hebrew patriarch Joseph’s marriage to Asenath

thumb|right|300px|Joseph Interprets the Dream of Pharaoh (19th Century painting by Jean-Adrien Guignet) Miketz or Mikeitz (—Hebrew for "at the end," the second word and first distinctive word of the parashah) is the tenth weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 41:1–44:17. The parashah tells of Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, Joseph's rise to power in Egypt, and Joseph's testing of his brothers.

coat, cape, wrap, or tunic of Joseph, which his brothers drenched in blood and showed to heir father Jacob, to hide that they had sold Joseph into slavery

thumb|160px|Joseph and Asenath together on this image in Berlin. Man depicted close to them may be Potiphera. According to the Hebrew Bible, Potiphera (, ) was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, mentioned in the and . He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife by the Pharaoh, () and who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Ephraim.

poem

Messiah in Jewish eschatology

archaeological site in Northern District, Israel