Joseph spoiled son and manipulative women.docx
Creators: name: Wilkin, Stanley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
subject: 210302 Asian History
subject: 210306 Classical Greek and Roman History
subject: 220402 Comparative Religious Studies
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 220304 Epistemology
subject: 220305 Ethical Theory
subject: Ethnic Studies
subject: 220306 Feminist Theory
subject: Gender studies
subject: 130308 Gender, Sexuality and Education
subject: 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 210108 Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 219999 History and Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: History
subject: 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities
subject: 220209 History of Ideas
subject: 220403 Islamic Studies
subject: 220404 Jewish Studies
subject: Literature
subject: 220311 Philosophical Psychology (incl. Moral Psychology and Philosophy of Action)
subject: Philosophy
subject: 229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 220315 Philosophy of Religion
subject: 130211 Religion Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: Religious Studies
subject: 220319 Social Philosophy
subject: 220406 Studies in Eastern Religious Traditions
subject: 220407 Studies in Religious Traditions (excl. Eastern, Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions)

description: Although a number of Biblical stories may have emerged from Hebrew folk-tales, there is no reason to believe that all did. In a time of uncertainty, as polities developed, many may equally have come from the Transjordan, similar in many ways to Israel and Judah and interacting with both throughout the 9<sup>th</sup> century. As the later stories of Hebrew kings has a religious variant many must be treated carefully. From folk-tales emanating from the general area, myths turned into history and historical events altered to express religious truth, here we have the extensive Hebrew literature. This essay will show that Hebrew society, in its literature, imitated and replicated Middle-Eastern societies, that for example prophets were a Middle-Eastern political institution connected to Royal dynasties and, as with YHWH, their chosen representative god. At times, Hebrew history and literature appears influenced by Greek literature, suggesting late composition. It is folly to hold that the stories identified here were written during the period in which they are set but that nevertheless oral traditions cannot be disputed-although this paper points out the oral traditions behind each composition need not be Hebrew or of hill-country origin. This paper presents two stories, the first apparently a literary composition without any likely foundation in fact, purporting to come from a time in the 11<sup>th</sup> century, the other has a clearer connection to historical events but which too has been subject to the biased telling common in much early and modern history.