The version of Joseph in Egypt I got growing up was shaped heavily by Joseph in the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Even the delightful music and vivid color, there's far more to the Joseph narrative than even Donnie Osman can share in 90 minutes.

In today's episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast, we explore several key themes in the story of Joseph in Egypt.

My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm a public communication specialist at the Neely Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

at Brigham Young University.

Christian Heel is a research fellow at the Institute, and each week we'll be discussing the week's

block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Come Follow Me curriculum.

We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block, so as to help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire

and fortify Latter-day Saints, and their testimonies are the restored gospel of Jesus Christ

and engage the world of religious ideas. Today we are joined by one of our research assistants,

Dori Cameron. Dory is a junior at W.Y.UYU from Great Falls, Montana, studying art and creative writing.

She has a strong interest in literature, culture, media, and language. Welcome to the show, Dory.

It is great to be here. We are glad to have you here. Now, Christian in Genesis 37 through 41,

there's a lot going on that we need to understand before we can

discuss Joseph, the son of Jacob. Could you please tell us more about what's going on in these

chapters? When we think of the scriptural narratives that we've encountered thus far, one of the

things that becomes clear is that scriptural stories are paradigmatic.

In other words, we can learn about ourselves and better understand our place in this world

and our relationship to the next if we live our lives into one of these seemingly remote and alien biblical stories.

Interestingly, it's the Old Testament narratives that are most thoroughly redolent with paradigmatic details.

Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Enoch, Noah, Rebecca, Jacob and Joseph, these are our teachers.

There's the lives that plot the trajectories for our own spiritual development.

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