Wie viele Josephs gibt es in der Bibel – und der eine, der niemals spricht

The question has no single answer, because the Bible contains several men called Joseph and the count depends on which one is meant. That sounds like an evasion. It is actually the interesting part, because two of them could hardly be less alike. The Josephs Joseph son of Jacob occupies the last quarter of Genesis — chapters 37 to 50, with a short interruption. That is the longest sustained narrative about any single person in the book, longer than Abraham’s…