And now in Technicolor

Chapter 36 

I don’t honestly see the point of this chapter, apart from there are many histories even for some of the secondary characters.

Chapter 37

The film Gladiator has the tag line – “The general who became a slave, a slave who became a gladiator, a gladiator who deified an emperor” 

The story of Maximius Decimus Meridius is nothing compared with the Amazing Joseph (even without his Technicolor dreamcoat!)

Joseph seems to be blessed with prophetic dreams – however his dreams really wind up his (10) older and (1) younger brothers and his parent, particularly as he seems to take special pleasure in telling them that they will bow down to him. 

He also had a history of dobbing his brother in, passing on bad reports

The special coat (Technicolor dreamcoat) actually probably was not brightly coloured but had long sleeves which made it unsuitable for working.

Jacob sends Joseph out to check up on his brothers who, when they see him coming, decide that they could live without little brother and chuck him in a well while they decide what to do.

Lucky for Joseph (in the long run) some slave traders come along and Josephs brothers make a bargain and sell him for 20 pieces of silver.

Ruben comes back to send the boy back to dad and finds him gone so they set up a murder scene where Joseph appears to have been attacked by a wild animal.

Joseph meanwhile (unknown to anybody who would be in a position to help him) is sold as a slave in Egypt.

I'll not go into the issue of slavery at this point - as the Bible talks about slavery later on. Suffice it to say that selling a sibling into slavery is not condoned in the book of Genesis - as we will see later .