How should we relate to figures in the Bible?

What if his brothers didn’t sell him into slavery?

Ascents medieval and modern.

Inserting divine instruction or omitting the story altogether.

Man, but not woman, is described as lonely.

Finding our place in the still-unfolding story.

“And it was good.”

The making of a biblical hero.

Reading Joseph through Jacob and Esau.

The argument over Sodom and the meaning of prayer.

The contradictions of Shechem.

And how the Flood changed him.