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IOSEPH aka "Joseph": Transliterated directly from Hebrew Yosef ("he will add" — 
Genesis 30:24 gives the naming wordplay directly: Rachel says God has taken away her reproach 
and calls him Yosef, praying the Lord will "add" another son). The Septuagint's IOSEPH is the 
favored son of Jacob and Rachel — sold into slavery by his own brothers, later exalted to rule 
in Egypt, and the one through whom Israel's family is preserved from famine (Genesis 37–50). 
His closing words to the brothers who betrayed him — that what they intended for harm, God 
intended for good, to preserve many people alive — became a touchstone of the whole Joseph 
narrative's meaning.
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A Greek-literate Jewish reader encountering IOSEPH in Luke's infancy narrative would carry this 
figure in view: the favored one, betrayed and humbled, who becomes the unlikely means of his 
people's rescue. Christian tradition has long read Joseph of Nazareth — and, by typological 
extension, IESOUS himself — against this pattern. 
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Note: the New Testament also names several other men IOSEPH, including one listed among Iesous' 
brothers (Matt.13:55) and Ioseph of Arimathea, who provides the tomb (Luke.23:50). 
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