Joseph Bowen Family

Joseph recounted many lowly beginnings to prove his powerful position was not just handed to him. Biblically, in the book of Genesis, Joseph’s father Jacob favored him out of his 12 sons and gifted him a coat of many colors. Filled with rage and jealousy, Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery. With Godly wisdom, “Due to his ability to interpret Pharaoh’s dream he was made governor of Egypt.” (Gordon)

Joseph learns from his father, Elias’ faults in both his community leadership and personal life. Joseph is a more powerful leader as well as a family member because of this. At the beginning of the novel, Elias is introduced as the former leader of Waknuk the community they live in. He teaches and inspires Joseph to lead the community, but he is also a good example for Joseph to learn how to alter his leadership styles to be more effective. At the beginning of the novel, there is a jump back in time to explain Joseph's childhood:

The story of Joseph in the Bible begins with explanations of Joseph’s youth and innocence and how his brothers were jealous of him because he was the “blessed son”. It involves a lot of specifics, like it mentions that Joseph was seventeen years

Joseph was the first born child of Rachel and because he was born to Jacob in his old age, Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons and made Joseph a richly ornamented robe, therefore Joseph’s brothers hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. Joseph also had dreams that indicated that he would reign over his brothers and this caused more hatred toward him. His brothers were jealous of the love that he received from their father and because of his dreams. Consequently, Joseph’s brothers plotted to kill him but instead they sold him to some Ishmaelites that were passing through to Egypt.

Joseph is mentioned here as the husband of Mary, which makes Joseph legally the father of Jesus. It is not the flesh, nor the blood that makes Jesus legally heir and gives Him the right to

Joseph began his life as the favorite son of Jacob who tended to the flocks as a shepherd.3 These humble beginnings foreshadow how one day Joseph will tend to the Seed of the Woman during times of famine in the land by giving food to this eleven brothers. Jacob, who was the son of Isaac, had eleven other sons who were jealous of the special attention that Joseph received. In fact, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.4 Joseph had a dream that predicted that Joseph would one day reign over his older brothers. This upset his brothers and they tricked Joseph by selling him into slavery. Joseph was then taken to Egypt where he was sold to Potiphar and became a servant in

Rachael, Joseph's mother wanted a child and was jealous in this case of her sister, unlike Hannah who was envious of her husbands second wive. Rachael told Jacob[her husband] to give her children or she will die.[Gen 30:1] Rachael was Jacob's favorite wife. Rachael even went to far as having a surrogate so that she could have a child with Jacob. In the end God blesses her with a child from Jacob and his name is Joseph, Jacob's favorite son. [Genesis 30:22-24]

The story of Joseph starts well before he was born, and the setting of things that would happen to him later in life really began when his father Jacob met his mother. The Bible tells us that Jacob took to Rachel, Joseph’s mother, immediately. In Genesis 29:10-11 (ESV), it says “Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban his

Here rests the importance of the genealogies; If Jesus were biological descendant of Joseph, He could not sit in the throne of David, “his father” according to the prophecy in Jeremiah 23.5 “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.” (my

Social family model theory sets presumption behaviors on how different family members would react to differently to similar traumatic circumstances. Bowen family system theory is one of the social family model of human behavior asserting that a family is an emotional unit and that members are connected emotionally. Therefore, a social family theory explains why it is easier to single out family members in the society. The connectedness of the family members makes the family to interdependent and change in one's behavior will explain the reaction of the rest of the family (Barrett, 2015). In some countries where there are different clans and cultures, people can be easily identified by their behavior.

Joseph is mentioned here as the husband of Mary, which makes Joseph legally the father of Jesus. It is not the flesh, nor the blood that makes Jesus legally heir and gives Him the right to

While Joseph lived in Egypt, God intervened and gave Joseph the gift of dream interpretation. Joseph interpreted for Pharaoh his dream and Pharaoh made Joseph the ruler over Egypt. At that time, the famine that Joseph had foretold was too severe and it lead the brother of Joseph came down to Egypt to buy food. After many twisted events, ‘Joseph made himself known to his brothers’ (Genesis 45:1) and he confessed in Genesis 45:7 that God brought him into the dreadful life of slavery so that through him God provided a new life by ‘preserve a remnant on earth’ and ‘keep alive many survivors.’

I do not doubt that Joseph didn’t love his family, he just was not very good at showing his love. He missed a big part of his kids growing up, 7 years is a long time. He tried to be

The Catholic tradition of the “brothers and sisters of Jesus” is that they are relatives like cousins but not actual siblings and that their mother was actually a disciple of Jesus, meaning Joseph would have to be divorced for this to work, a rather uncomfortable though in Catholic theology. Acceptance of Bauckham’s proposal from a Catholic perspective all of

If you don’t know Joseph’s story, Joseph’s father favored him the most out of his other 10 brothers at the time. Joseph was a dream interpreter. After Joseph dreamt about his brothers bowing down to him, they sold Joseph into slavery out of jealousy, and told Joseph’s father he was eaten by animals.