Joseph, part 3: Framing & Composition
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A fateful choice lands Joseph in prison, where his divine accompaniment becomes apparent.
Text: Genesis 39:7-40:8
Players:
- Yahweh
- Joseph
- Potiphar's wife
- Potiphar
- The prison warden
- Jacob
- Leah
- Pharaoh's cupbearer
- Pharaoh's chief baker
What's Spooky:
- A sexual proposition is made
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Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Design: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Production: Hazefire Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is a dream? |
| 0:07.7 | When the body sleeps and the mind enters another realm, |
| 0:12.7 | when its defenses set like the sun, |
| 0:15.9 | and the subconscious shakes off its burial clothes, |
| 0:19.6 | rising to walk and newness of life. |
| 0:22.7 | When the laws of physics retire and the rigid structure of time grows supple, |
| 0:29.0 | what might happen in that space? |
| 0:34.6 | This is a story about a god who works in the dark, a God who speaks plainly and in riddles, |
| 0:43.3 | a God who, when he has something to say, sometimes likes to say it in a dream, |
| 0:51.3 | because when you're sleeping, he is not. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Sleep with me. Joseph feels her touch on his arm, the warmth of her breath on his cheek, desire, loneliness, anger in the eyes of his master's wife. |
| 1:52.1 | He backs up. She moves forward. |
| 1:56.5 | Joseph is no fool. This woman holds power over the household. Power over him. Please her and enjoy further advancement. Reject her and... |
| 2:08.6 | The strap of her dress falls off her shoulder. |
| 2:12.6 | A quick prayer. I've been strong so far. |
| 2:17.8 | Help me keep going. |
| 2:19.8 | Look, Joseph says, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his |
| 2:26.4 | house, and he's put all that he owns under my authority. |
| 2:30.6 | No one in this house is greater than I am. |
| 2:33.9 | She bites her look, perhaps. |
| 2:36.0 | Oh, I know. |
| 2:37.8 | But Joseph is standing straighter now, feeling carried. |
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