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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...
...slow-paced and philosophical that it seems static, despite the rapid development of its action. For it lacks the intense excitement of the scenes in which Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph in Egypt). But while it is written with the deliberately pedantic humor in which Mann casts his cosmic irony, Joseph the Provider is so lucid that the magnificent flow of its prose may well be overlooked...
...Joseph books almost require a second reading. Readers will be likely to enjoy this big book only when they have looked back upon the immense pattern of the story, the array of characters-Joseph himself, his father, Jacob, his brothers, the scribes and stewards of Egypt, the courtly eunuch Potiphar, his sexually frustrated wife, the two dwarfs (in whom Mann personifies the principles of ineffectual goodness and potent evil), Pharaoh, the sermons of the bald-pated Egyptian priests, the astronomy, history, architecture, concepts of life & death-and the similarities and differences in the ancient legends of different people that Mann...
...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...
When he is sold to Potiphar his rise begins. His aptness wins him the regard of Potiphar's steward, the stocky, 50-year-old Mont-kaw, and saves him from labor in the fields. His clairvoyance and wit, when the great Potiphar himself speaks to him, start him on his way to becoming first Potiphar's reader and later his steward upon Mont-kaw's death. But most of Joseph in Egypt is given over to a study of the mad passion of Potiphar's wife for Joseph-a passion that, in Mann's account...