{"id":22,"date":"2016-03-22T04:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T04:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-05-03T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T19:39:35","slug":"week-3-joseph-and-prophethood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/2016\/03\/22\/week-3-joseph-and-prophethood\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: Joseph and Prophethood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this week’s readings, I was particularly struck by the story of the prophet Joseph within the Qur’an and its relation to other religious scriptures. Joseph’s story is also present in Jewish and Christian traditions, although it is particularly emphasized within the Qur’an and in Muslim culture. This provides insight into the close relation of the three religions, and the ways in which they interact with each other. The\u00a0Qur’anic version of the story is closely related to the Biblical one, although there are some key differences. In Muslim tradition, Joseph’s immense physical beauty is emphasized to a greater extent, and is one of\u00a0his most prominent and familiar characteristics. Additionally,\u00a0while in the Bible his coat–given to him by his father–is a source of jealousy for his brothers, it is not one in the Qur’an.<\/p>\n

I chose to represent my perception of the story as one portion of the many ways in which Judaism, Christianity, and Islam interact. In the picture I drew, I used familiar symbols to portray the story of Joseph. There are the sun, moon, and eleven stars, which Joseph sees\u00a0bowing down to him in a dream before his brothers sell him into slavery. There is also the bloodstained shirt which the brothers take back to their father as proof of Joseph’s death, as well as eyes, representing Joseph’s outward beauty. These figures are surrounded by representations of books, acting as religious scriptures–perhaps the Qur’an, Bible, and Torah, or perhaps generic representations of\u00a0religious traditions. These books are\u00a0connected by multicolored\u00a0lines to\u00a0show the intricate and close-knit relationship of the different traditions and the multitude of ways in which they all interact with the same story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week’s readings, I was particularly struck by the story of the prophet Joseph within the Qur’an and its relation to other religious scriptures. Joseph’s story is also present in Jewish and Christian traditions, although it is particularly emphasized within the Qur’an and in Muslim culture. This provides insight into the close relation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/brittan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}