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