By: Sitham A

Sitham A — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:05:52 +0000

Joseph & Mrs Potiphar – a story until I read it now again for me crystal clear: If there is sin run away. If you are invited or forced to do something against your own beliefs, run even further. Even if this would cost your coat, strips you down to full bareness – endure all threatening consequences. Go there, be brave – be faithful!
Joseph, the beautiful innocent idealistic faithful young slave finds himself in the claws of Potiphar’s wife, a woman not even worth to be mentioned by her own name. Reading it now, I am concerned about her. Who \’is\’ she? The lived seduction, the malicious witch, the vagina dentate, the man eater, the greedy mistress, lusting for the inaccessible, the dominatrix, abusing her slave?
I see a woman living alongside a probably quite boring husband. Someone who doesn’t do anything of significance, who had delegated everything, who had laid down power and spirit, erotic and drive, no challenge left in his life, no move to be made, pure stagnation, just keeping himself busy with gratification of his oral needs. Thrice daily.
It’s not that difficult for me to see Potiphar’s wife’s frustration. Why she would start to look outside her lived reality. Why she would really want this object of desire she can’t have.

By: Andy Wain

Andy Wain — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:15:39 +0000

I have not considered the role Potiphar’s wife before. Potiphar’s household had the “blessing of God spread over everything he owned, at home and in the fields.” Yet she was not satisfied and wanted the one thing she could not have, Joseph. It reminds me of Adam and Eve and how they wanted the one thing they could not have.

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By: Sitham A

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