I think this biblical times book I'm reading is going to my head. Tonight, finally, Minneapolis is having a good, hard, soaking rain. It has been months. Eduardo commented that it would be a pleasant change to not have to water our yard every day, at least for awhile. I stood at the door and said "Finally the rains have come. " Um, totally a biblical thing to say. At least I didn't follow it up with "Our crops and herds will now be well nourished. El has looked upon us with favor." Then we would know for sure that I had lost it.
I am about half done with The Red Tent and I really like it. Having attended Sunday school all while I grew up, I am quite well-versed in the Old Testament stories. Throughout my childhood, I even participated in several "productions" of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. You wish I would post the photos. Not going to happen.
Anyway, a dramatization of the details of these familiar Old Testament stories is fascinating. And strangely, while I knew that Joseph was Jacob's favorite son out of his 12 sons and that is why Jacob gave him the fancy coat and made Joseph's brothers want to kill him, I had no idea that Joseph had a sister who didn't want to kill him, or that these 12 sons of Jacob came from 4 different mothers, all of whom were sisters and married to Jacob. I guess that part was too scandalous for Sunday school?
But now the rains have come and now I know the whole story. Jacob was a total player.
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