Jose

(This article is on Jose, son of Jacob, for information on the putative father of Jesus, it see: San jOse)

Biography

It is considered that Jose he is absolutely a personage , although is possible that it has certain trasfondo historical. The myth tells that he was one of the twelve children of Jacob (and, therefore, ancestro of one of twelve tribes of Israel), one gained envies it of its brothers to be the favorite of its father and, in addition, by his dreams, in which it appears cash settlement over these. Their brothers tend an ambush to him and make believe Jacob who has died. In fact they have sold to him to caravaneers like slave.

This way it leaves and arrives a . Seated in house of Putifar, the wife of this one tries to seduce to him. When it does not obtain its objective, it denounces to him like seducer, reason why it finishes in the jail. There it foretells the dreams of two companions of cell, which arrives at ears from , that orders to call to him to interpret a dream that nobody is able to decipher. Jose foretells seven years of abundance and seven of shortage, after which he is named ordered to collect grain to surpass the shortage. Finally, when the shortage strikes Egypt and Palestine, their brothers arrive until the Pharaoh cut to request aid. At a first moment they do not recognize it, but Jose arms a series of strategies to eet again itself with Youngest child, the minor of the brothers, and with their father, Jacob.

Although legendary history is one hundred percents, exist other historical personages who, coming from the humblest origins and the periphery of great empires, have been able to encumbrar themselves until the highest positions (for example, Estilicón), reason why it is not impossible that this narration has an historical base, although is disfigured very.