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God's Holy Spirit: A back-story from the Joseph narrative (Genesis 37-50)
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The story of Judah within the longer Joseph story (Genesis 37-50) provides an apt place for readers to discern the work of the Holy Spirit and what is recognized in spirituality as the work of discernment. The character goes from venal and crass to empathetic and self-giving, and the question is how the narrative shows evidence of that process. With the help of the philosopher/theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, the narrated experience of the character in seven scenes is examined for evidence of Judah’s journey of transformation – presumably guided by God’s widening and inspiring Spirit, with special attention given to the scene (Genesis 44) where Judah must persuade his (unrecognized) brother Joseph, serving as Viceroy of Egypt, to allow Judah to take punishment in place of their brother Benjamin for the sake of their father. The larger Holy Spirit and discernment context of the story is the dreams of Joseph.
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This article reads Judah’s transformation in Genesis 37–50 through Mikhail Bakhtin’s categories of answerability, exotopy, and dialogism, treating the reader’s discernment of Judah’s growth as an exercise in biblical spirituality. It argues that although the Holy Spirit is not named in the Joseph story, readers can construct the Spirit’s transformative work in Judah’s movement from selling Joseph to offering himself for Benjamin.
Key findings
- The paper traces Judah across seven narrative moments, from his proposal to sell Joseph for profit in Genesis 37:26–27, through his acknowledgment of Tamar’s righteousness in 38:26, his pledge for Benjamin in 43:9, to Genesis 44, where he asks to take Benjamin’s punishment.
- Genesis 44:18–34 is described as “the longest narrative speech of the Old Testament,” spanning seventeen verses, in which Judah sketches the father, the Egyptian man, and himself to persuade Joseph to release Benjamin.
- The paper notes that the Hebrew word *ruaḥ* does not appear in Genesis 37–50; instead God is described as operating through Joseph’s dreams (37:5–11; 40–41), as being with Joseph (39:2, 23; 41:51, 52; 45:7–9; 50:20), and as appearing to Jacob (46:1–4).
- The narrative ends with compassion “not decisively or conclusively achieved”: the brothers still fear Joseph and have not acknowledged their deed in their own words, even after Jacob’s death.
Methods
- Design: a literary-theological and biblical-spirituality reading of Genesis 37–50, focused on Judah, using Bakhtin’s concepts of answerability, exotopy/outside-ness, and dialogism, supplemented by Ruth Coates on Bakhtin.
- Data/sample: the biblical text of Genesis 37–50, especially Genesis 44, alongside secondary theoretical and exegetical literature; no empirical sample is used.
- Analysis: close reading of seven selected scenes, with attention to Judah’s speech, characterization, and rhetorical construction, while treating language about the Spirit’s role as phenomenological and provisional.
Limitations
- The paper states that its seven scenes “do not begin to exhaust” the Joseph story and that historical reconstruction, genetic processes, authorial identity/intention, and character psychology are less important for its purposes.
- It also states that Bakhtin has been critiqued by feminists and post-colonialists for an overly optimistic view of the benignity of such processes, and that “possibilities for abuse of the willingly vulnerable are legion.”
- Evident from the text: the Holy Spirit is not explicitly named in Genesis 37–50, the author’s link to “breadth/wideness” as a Spirit marker is a readerly proposal, and Judah’s transformation is described as implicit, miniaturized, and “not very comprehensively motivated.”
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“This word does not appear in the story we will be reading”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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“Joseph's two dreams, provocative with their numbered items and hierarchical positions (vv.5-11) are the specific reason the brothers articulate for their attack on Joseph when they see him advancing toward them (vv.19-20).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.1 First moment
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“God is characterized by the narrator as being with Joseph (39:2,23;41:51, 52; 45:7-9; 50:20)”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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- Not matchedcites Genesis 39:2,23
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“The character goes from venal and crass to empathetic and self-giving, and the question is how the narrative shows evidence of that process.”
- Also stated in: § 3.3 Third moment · hedged
“For the first time Judah seems to take into account something besides his own profit -though not to the exclusion of his gain.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Abstract
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“the narrated experience of the character in seven scenes is examined for evidence of Judah's journey of transformation”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Abstract
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“he has lost two sons and fears for the third, has sired two more and comes close to destroying them as well.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.3 Third moment
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“Joseph's dreams (and dreams in general) are understood as being from God (37:5-11; 40-41)”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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“God appears specifically to Jacob to explain to him the process of his descendants' leaving the land (46:1-4).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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“Judah's plan, his reading of the situation, is that to sell Joseph is preferable to killing him outright or letting him die, since profit can be made from the sale.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.1 First moment
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“Judah's second move in company with the pack of brothers, compounding his first, comes at 37:32, when having re-written the distinctive coat with blood, they offer it to their common father, asking him to identify it as Joseph's, or not.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.2 Second moment
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“Though it also is not attested in the story at hand”
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“In fact, the narrator says (37:25), they ate their lunch.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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“To sum that up a bit differently: Judah has been shown to be crass, dishonest, manipulative, depriving a father of a son; he also has been authored to be generous, forthright, manipulated, and deprived of sons.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“For Judah, having been on the receiving end of that comment the first time, to use that language again is bold and ironic in the extreme.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“Perhaps that is the point: Having papered over what they did, it continues to worry them, preventing reconciliation from occurring, at least from their angle.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.7 Seventh moment
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“Judah draws his self as caught between strong men in Canaan and Egypt, caving in each time before their wills, needing finally now, he says -for the Egyptian to give way rather than to have the old father at home lose out, again.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“By the time they arrive home and tell their tale to their father, the moment of empathy seems vanished.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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“Indeed, Tamar has planned for their mutual good in a way Judah had not bothered and had indeed refused to do.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.3 Third moment
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“Judah discloses that the only reason the brothers stand before the man in Egypt is because of the pledge that Judah has already made to the father: where, if something were to happen to Benjamin, Judah would accept it as his perpetual sin.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“In Judah's present sketch, the father is given to talk about his old grey head going down to Sheol should a second young son be lost, the words in fact he spoke when the first one disappeared.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“Judah has the request emerge rather naturally from the man's inquiry into family affairs (vv.19,21).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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“At 50:16, they reveal to Joseph that their father had urged them to beg Joseph for forgiveness, but it appears that they had not done so then and, in fact, do not quite do it at this moment.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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“Brilliant literature that is Scripture most intensely allows us the space, the breadth, to change.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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“In any case, the gift given, the kenotic authoring evidenced by the incarnated logos, Bakhtin stresses, is benign rather than heavily judgmental, is characterized by graciousness, respect, mercy, love.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
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“It is a moment we can resist, if we choose, and then nothing will happen.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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- Rests on an assumption: A reader can be transformed by engaging a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.
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“Judah's language stresses him as old, bereft of all but one of the sons born to their mother (i.e., of two!), much attached to the remaining boy (44:20, 22).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“We may imagine Jacob, arms folded across his chest, importuned ineffectually by Reuben and successfully by Judah, who reads his father more shrewdly.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.5 Fifth moment
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“He appears willing, as we just left him, to sign the deal he hopes Joseph will offer him, gain for his father but a loss for himself.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“We may note that Judah's picture matches rather minimally -if quite shrewdly -the story as we may know it, may correspond little to the strong-willed patriarch we know from this story and elsewhere.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“The removal of also this last dearest son has now been threatened repeatedly, a loss that would kill the father (vv.21, 23, 25-26).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“There is another subtext to this drawing, hustled forward in 44:33-34: cheer up the old man by non-returning Judah instead of Benjamin -a lineament not too fictional, given the Jacob we know who does have a hierarchy of offspring.”
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“We bring our life into relationship with a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“Far from needing to be submerged or denied, the transformative recycling of it is what produces fruit.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“What Judah hated as a son, he did as a father, to the near-detriment of his whole family.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Second, as Judah talks, he is shaping his utterance in terms of the man he sees before him.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Judah gives the beleaguered figure of Jacob hypothetical direct discourse (vv.27-29), shows him speaking earnestly, desperately, as though he were reviewing for his other sons the relevant circumstances.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“His angle, exotopic to them in so many aspects (though not in all, we must recall), gives him considerable advantage.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“The scene -both patched together from the moment when Jacob learned of the loss of Joseph and Simeon and fabricated from what has not occurred, worn about threadbare, we may feel -sets up the loophole Judah offers the man of capable of power and justice: a moment for mercy.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“And the powerful one has indeed gotten what he demanded and is about to compound it, unless he gives way to Judah's plan: switch one of Jacob's sons for another.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“presumably guided by God's widening and inspiring Spirit”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Abstract
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The human capacity to grow in compassion aligns with God's nature, whose central and most prominent quality is compassion.
- The authors state this as an assumption: God's Spirit is active in the Old Testament, even if less prominent.
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In the paper
“We need not make Judah too pious here, since it is his own offspring he saves as well as their mother, but he does come through as candid at the moment of crunch.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Bakhtin posits a creator God, fundamentally transcendent (or exotopic) to creatures, existing on a separate plane, but intensely involved with them.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
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- Not matchedcites Coates 1998
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In the paper
“Judah first undertakes the appeal for desired leniency from a man who is justified in harsh sentencing.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“Hence Savran's Joseph should be willing to put up with such artistic and rhetorical license.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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- Not matchedcites Savran (1988)
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In the paper
“That Joseph maintains he wills them no harm and has blended their deed into a larger stew does not seem to help them be able to do the same.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.7 Seventh moment
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In the paper
“It is a delicate moment when Judah has to review the ukase of the viceroy -that the youngest brother must come next trip -without making it appear arbitrary and cruel.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“the whole story moves responsively to the two dreams Joseph recites and that his family interpret from within their own experience (Gen 37:5-11) (Green 1996).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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- Not matchedcites Green 1996
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- The authors state this as an assumption: God's Spirit is coherent over time.
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“Bakhtin's two vivid names for the refusal to sign are to claim an alibi and to be a pretender.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.1 Bakhtin's general point of entry
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- Not matchedcites Bakhtin 1993
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In the paper
“We must wager that his narrative can help us, that he as a human/literary construct catches well enough to us that he can catalyze compassion in us as he comes to welcome and be swamped by it as well.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The Judah character is drawn with enough honesty and catches well enough to readers that he can catalyze compassion in them.
In the paper
“Bakhtin holds that part of being human is to wrestle with these matters in the situations of our particular lives, to relate all the pieces of our existence architectonically.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.1 Bakhtin's general point of entry
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- Not matchedcites Bakhtin 1993
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In the paper
“A reader performs a text.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“The nine brothers' previous exposure to a scene of apparently unfair and arbitrary imprisonment helps them understand how their brother felt in a way they did not evidence in chapter 37 (or since).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“Tamar had calculated him to be greedy and insensitive but fundamentally practical and fair -and with each of those authorings he has collaborated (38:13-26).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Seeing Judah and moving into some temporary coherence with him allows us a place to experience something akin to what he learned, as our life-experience widens out his journey.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Rests on an assumption: A reader can be transformed by engaging a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.
- The authors state this as an assumption: The Judah character is drawn with enough honesty and catches well enough to readers that he can catalyze compassion in them.
In the paper
“So Bakhtin develops his understanding based on alterity: how am I different from the other -all the others -and, more important to Bakhtin, in what many ways am I related to all the others.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Greg Nielsen sums up these concepts:
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Bakhtin 1993
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In the paper
“Savran, who consistently calls Judah's interlocutor Joseph, seems to miss the split.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Savran (1988)
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In the paper
“For starters, Judah pencils himself (a bit disingenuously) as virtually optionless.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“A skilled reader, able to draw deeply from a brilliant narrative which is also Scripture is in a position to accomplish something insightful, provocative, catalyzing.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
plainstates a possible cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- The authors state this as an assumption: God's Spirit assists in transforming human hearts toward broader compassion.
- Rests on an assumption: A reader can be transformed by engaging a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.
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In the paper
“When we see him again returned to his son status, he brings to bear what he experienced as a father/husband and offers himself in pledge, and against his likely expectation, must once again be willing to pay up.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Additionally, the radical compatibility between Bakhtin's philosophical/aesthetic work and biblical texts needs summarizing.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2. METHODOLOGY: BAKHTIN
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In the paper
“As Bakhtin's thought develops over the decades, the relation of creator to (human) creatures shifts and widens, with the creation becoming less managed from the outside and more mutual and respectful.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Bakhtin
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In the paper
“As the story winds on, conspicuously missing is the brothers ever acknowledging except in allusive spurts what they did.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“Judah's art, his softened sketch of the implacable Egyptian, is to imply that the man cannot have known -until this moment -the whole of what he was asking.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The old gray head did not go down when Simeon was detained (42:36), nor when Dinah was taken off (Genesis 34).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“The evidence of serious theft is so compelling that there is no defense possible (44:16); all Judah can do is appeal for the guilty, as responsible family member, and ask that the sentence be reassigned.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Perhaps the discernment learning is that hard work is involved and cannot be omitted.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“The transformation of Judah is enough, however, to bring him through well in a pinch.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
plainstates a causeSingle case- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“As a group, they are sketched as refusing very full ownership of their deed, which nonetheless repeats on them sporadically.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“His father had made him non-favored, to which Judah had rejoined by his plan for profit (37:3 and 26-7);”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“with special attention given to the scene (Genesis 44) where Judah must persuade his (unrecognized) brother Joseph, serving as Viceroy of Egypt, to allow Judah to take punishment in place of their brother Benjamin for the sake of their father.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Abstract
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“So what Christians celebrate as the incarnation of God's logos in Jesus is part of a pattern of how God is described to deal with human beings in the Bible.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
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In the paper
“Judah's moment and our reading of it does not land us securely on any safe rock for ever.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.7 Seventh moment
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“Joseph has authored Judah with the others when giving them a chance to leave another brother in a pit, to which Judah with the others acquiesced silently (42:18-25).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“Oddly, and without much apparent practical gain, we catch one more (seventh) scene at the end of the long narrative, where after all events have transpired successfully, including the death, repatriation and burial of Jacob, the brothers again evince fear of Joseph, of his capacity and willingness to retaliate for their deed -which, we may note, they have not yet acknowledged in their own words.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.7 Seventh moment
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In the paper
“What he was callous about with Joseph's disappearance he manages much better when Benjamin's is threatened.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“But standing close to him, overlapping him, we recognize enough and trust enough to draw and be drawn with his chalks.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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“The larger Holy Spirit and discernment context of the story is the dreams of Joseph.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Abstract
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In the paper
“The words that issue from this Jacob's lips are borrowed from the disappearance of Joseph scene: “... [O]ne went forth and I said, 'torn to bits' and I have not seen him since.If you take this one also from me and he come to harm, you will bring my gray hairs in sorrow to Sheol” (37:33,37 and 42:38).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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“The fifth moment we watch (opening chapter 43) highlights Judah by name again, allowing us to watch him pull somewhat away from the pack, as he did in scenes one and three and will shortly do in moment six.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.5 Fifth moment
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“And it engenders in ourselves, as recipients, both a turn from isolation and a move toward God: faith, a joy in healthful interdependence with others, love, prayer, repentance -all of which are transformative over time”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
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“Unpacking goods under Jacob's gimlet eye, they review their experience in Egypt, omitting much of it and altering slightly what they do tell, with the effect that they divulge information only when pressed by “the man.””
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“Home again, the family accused and blamed, rehearsed and re-sliced old issues, activating from Judah his practical and effective offer to pledge for his youngest brother (43:1-7 ended by 8-10).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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“As Judah sketches the hungry family in Canaan as they sort options, implicit is the power of the man to have gotten what he had originally demanded.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“Given the careful dynamics of this family tale, Joseph cannot have known all that poignant detail until he hears it at this moment.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“But insofar as we author some inter-penetration with his experience as it is proffered to us, we move with him.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“The Judah character is drawn with great honesty -a favor and gift to us if we can bring enough self-knowledge to bear, we who are also daughters and sons, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, husbands and wives.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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“Judah now swings into rhetorical high gear, launching the longest narrative speech of the Old Testament.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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- Not matchedcites Savran (1988)
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In the paper
““My Judah” has a number of untransformed moments post Genesis 38.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lambe (1999) source
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In the paper
“The first pledge, extracted from Judah by someone he has wronged, an embarrassment to him when he sends to reclaim it from dubious hands, turns out to be exactly what he needed for his next step.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“That is, Judah concedes, perhaps easily, that someone in the family group is a thief and so that the charge is not false, the punishment not undeserved.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“Joseph can see himself in this sketch as the first absent son, grieved over when he did not come home and presumed to have been torn to pieces, and again in the scene drawn when Benjamin is threatened.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“In this “street sketch” the aged parent never actually gives way (as in fact the hungry old patriarch managed to do in 43:11) but somehow the scene segues to draw (again hypothetically) the waiting father expiring upon the non-return of the youngest son, a scene collaged on top of the scene of non-return of the first favored one (44:31 borrowed from 37:33-35).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“Indeed, this is the high point of their acknowledgment of what they did.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“Now, the unthinkable having happened, Judah's last move is to ask that the literal sin be loaded onto him and that the thief go home free.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“In this confrontation (Judah's rhetorics aside) the balance of power lies quite clearly with the powerful Egyptian whose divining cup has been stolen by an ungrateful foreigner.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“As was the case in chapter 38, we see Judah dislodged from serving simply his own ends, shrewd enough to offer his father the one thing that will reverse Jacob's refusal: Judah himself as pledge.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.5 Fifth moment
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In the paper
“As the story winds on, the father never changes the pattern that Judah reacted against, nor is there evidence of much change on the part of the brothers.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“He has signed the charge Tamar presented to him, gaining two sons but losing some honor (n.b. 38:23).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“The center of our reflection comes in this sixth moment of the story, arguably the book's climax (44:1-17), though six chapters remain.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“Jacob does not “deserve” this action of Judah, but Judah acts in any case.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“For the first time Judah seems to take into account something besides his own profit -though not to the exclusion of his gain.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.3 Third moment
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In the paper
“Clines (2010: 427-40) and Kronholm & Tengström (2004:341-396) agree that two roots are not clearly distinguished.”
- Also stated in: § 1. INTRODUCTION · plain
“these two roots rwḥ/riḥ are used both for the agency of spirit and also for widening space, making room.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 1. INTRODUCTION
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- Not matchedcites Clines (2010: 427-40)
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- Not matchedcites Kronholm & Tengström (2004:341-396)
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- Also stated in: § 1. INTRODUCTION · plain
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In the paper
“Again, we need to look slant at this drawing, since we know more than Judah does about the man with whom he is speaking: Joseph was not witness to the scene of his father's learning of his absence and so has had no way to know what transpired when he did not return home.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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“In these seventeen verses Judah pens at least three sketches, each of which is itself richly ambivalent.”
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In the paper
“Judah's experience of losing sons, some actually and others nearly, sets him up to be alert to the same situation as he imagines it for his father.”
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In the paper
“Thanks to the skill of the mother of his last sons, he is saved from his own foolishness.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Judah's past works for him, and he allows himself to be broadened by it.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“Drawing with self-deferential and other-inflating language the portrait Judah hopes to sell the man, the suppliant casts himself in the third person and urges that the man is like Pharaoh himself (44:18): right, mighty, and maybe kind, susceptible to appeal and persuasion.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“This is arguably a painfully selfaware moment for Judah, who argues fictively what he knows to be true, that his father loves some sons more than others, more than him.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“We may recall that we watched that play as well and may recall a bit differently: Jacob was surrounded by offspring eager not so much to help him keep a son but to cover up how he had lost one.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“That is, we need to recall that the “real Joseph” is learning new and sensitive 20 Savran, who consistently calls Judah's interlocutor Joseph, seems to miss the split.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“In addition to all this authoring at the level of characters, we have the wider authorial depicting of Judah as the prominent brother (culminating in 49:8-12), made visible as Jacob's will is read, so to speak.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“He goes on to describe the man's apparent interest in the family when the shoppers from Canaan first appeared (rearranging the dialogue of 42:9-20, 29-38 and 43:3-7 not inconsiderably as he recasts it in 44:19 [n.b.: the man knows what he said, and Judah knows that he knows]).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“The narrative thus ends with compassion not decisively or conclusively achieved, as of course is often the case.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.7 Seventh moment
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In the paper
“Joseph, despite and because of his brothers, moves closer to the position of primacy he needs to fill for the well-being of the family.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.1 First moment
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In the paper
“The pitch is to a man of absolute power:”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > Additional information
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In the paper
“God's creating or authoring involves a divine going forth to bring something to exist and then sustaining it in being.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 2.2 Coates (1998) on Bakhtin
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Coates 1998
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In the paper
“A heavy burden of argumentation is on Judah if “the man” is to be dissuaded from his announced intention of detaining the thief in Egypt while dismissing the others to Canaan (44:17).”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6 Sixth moment
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In the paper
“We do not, of course, become Judah or take his journey as our own in any literal sense.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
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In the paper
“it appears to be planned and executed with no care for the feelings of the father, whose subsequent reaction of endless mourning simply compounds the feelings the brothers have evidenced so far.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.2 Second moment
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In the paper
“The story represents Judah appropriating experience effectively, if not easily, with lines that are for the most part loving and gentle, but which I construe as well-intentioned.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“The authoring of him as a hero has been rather minimal; that is, though it is possible to see a change, it seems not very comprehensively motivated.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.6.2 Judah's sketch of the man
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In the paper
“They disclose to us now what we were not shown previously: that Joseph resisted their original grasping of him and they paid no heed.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 3.4 Fourth moment
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In the paper
“I think there is not the slightest hint in the story that Judah has recognized his brother by this moment in the story.”
§ GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT: A BACK-STORY FROM THE JOSEPH NARRATIVE (GENESIS 37-50) > 4. CONCLUSION: BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY AND THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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The authors state this as an assumption.
The human capacity to grow in compassion aligns with God's nature, whose central and most prominent quality is compassion.
“But I assume that the dance aligns the capacity of the human to grow in compassion, a central and most prominent quality of God.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
God's Spirit is coherent over time.
“Christians may and should presume coherence of God's Spirit over time.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
God's Spirit is active in the Old Testament, even if less prominent.
“We can catalogue ways in which God's Spirit has been glimpsed at work in the time and production of the Old Testament (Waaijman 2002:483-515) even if less prominent, presumably nonetheless active.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Readers can discern and construct the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Joseph story even if the storyteller did not intend to foreground it.
“Without needing to make the claim that the Joseph storyteller intended to foreground the role of the Holy Spirit as breadth, nonetheless our capacity to discern and construct her presence is what counts”
The paper relies on this without support.
Scripture is one of the main pathways for transformation for Christian believers.
“since for Christian believers (and analogously for many others) Scripture is one of the main pathways for transformation.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
God's Spirit assists in transforming human hearts toward broader compassion.
“Insofar as God's deepest hopes are for the transformation of our narrow and self-focused little hearts to inhabit a place broader and more compassionate, God's Spirit assists.”
The paper relies on this without support.
A reader can be transformed by engaging a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.
“We bring our life into relationship with a narrative of someone else's process of change and growth.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The Judah character is drawn with enough honesty and catches well enough to readers that he can catalyze compassion in them.
“We must wager that his narrative can help us, that he as a human/literary construct catches well enough to us that he can catalyze compassion in us as he comes to welcome and be swamped by it as well.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The purpose of art is for us to see ourselves, the good and the bad, and to cope with what we see.
“The purpose of art is for us to see ourselves -the good and the bad -and to cope with what we see.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Brilliant literature that is Scripture most intensely allows readers the space and breadth to change.
“Brilliant literature that is Scripture most intensely allows us the space, the breadth, to change.”
Citations
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- Authors
- Green, B.
- Affiliations
- Graduate Theological Union (US)
- Corresponding author
- Green, B
- Venue
- Acta Theologica
- Publisher
- University of the Free State
- Published
- 2013-10-31
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2S
- ISSN
- 1015-8758 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2082523749
- Semantic Scholar
- 00d7490245bdcb3c4b08654fc33fe29953d97449
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Acta Theologica (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Karl Barth and Christian Theology
- Keywords
- Holy Spirit, discernment, Joseph narrative, Genesis 37-50, Judah, Benjamin, Genesis 44, Bakhtin, narrative transformation, Joseph's dream
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