Biblical Hebrew Forum

[kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

Jim,
 
You think that Joseph's mother had to be alive because he dreamed that she 
would bow down to him in Genesis 37:9-10. Since she did not actually live to 
see him become ruler of Egypt, the dream would have been a false prophecy if 
she was alive or dead when he had the dream, because she never actually bowed 
down to him as a ruler to fulfill the prophecy.
 
I think that her maid was his adopted mother who fulfilled the prophecy. When 
the maids had kids for Rachel and Leah, they considered  the kids to be 
theirs (Rachel and Leah's kids.) Also, Genesis 37:2 says that Joseph watched 
the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, but that would have only been 
Gad, Asher, Dan, and Naphtali. Genesis 37 mentions Reuben and Judah being 
with the flocks too. Maybe all of them were there because their adopted 
mothers were Bilhah and Zilpah. Do you think only Joseph and the 4 maid's 
sons watched the flocks or all of them?
 
There is also the possibility that the sun or moon in Joseph's dream stood 
for Dinah, and that Jacob was wrong to think it was Joseph's mother, but I 
doubt this.
 
Kenneth Greifer
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