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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Pit. Joseph in Egypt ended when Joseph, Potiphar's powerful steward, was ruined by the false accusation of Potiphar's wife. Potiphar sent him to the island fortress of Zawi-Re in Lower Egypt. When this volume opens, Joseph is a prisoner, brooding on the wreckage of his life and the mystery of Egypt, while a boat hustles him off to jail through the bustle of Egypt's busiest highway, the Nile. Ashamed, defeated, heartsick, and yet never without a mild, detached humor and a powerful conviction of future triumph, Joseph thinks how much this imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Masterpiece | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...first anniversary on the air. A retelling of Bible tales with all the trappings of soap opera, it is now dramatizing the story of Moses. Last fall it scored a hit with six weeks of broadcasts on the adventures of Joseph with the amorous Mrs. "Zuleikha" Potiphar, which takes only 14 verses in the Book of Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moses in Soap Opera | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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