Publisher's Synopsis
The story of Joseph is one of the most famous stories in the Hebrew Bible. As early as ancient and late antiquity, numerous commentators not only interpreted it, but also continued it and added it to the story. This also includes the story of Joseph in the Koran. This book describes the story of Joseph With the help of the hermeneutic principles of depth psychology, the Joseph story shows itself as the individuation process of a traumatized child who, after phases of loneliness and humiliation in a foreign country, finds himself in a foreign country and can finally approach the family of origin Images of change, which are also associated with the figure of Joseph for today's readers, are also accompanied by a change in the images: This is how the different accents and psychological dynamics of the story of Joseph in their Jewish, Christian and Islamic variants become en described. "The story of Joseph presented in Genesis 37-50 is one of the most interesting stories in the Bible. Nora Schmidt succeeds in tracing the development of the Joseph figure in depth psychology and thus reconstructing the narrative dynamics of the biblical and Koranic versions of the Joseph story. Your new look at the Joseph story represents an important addition to previous research. " (Konrad Schmid, Zurich) "Although the figure of Joseph is part of our western canon of knowledge, a representation of his Koranic image has so far been completely missing. The fruitfulness of psychological reading, especially for the Qur'anic stories, which are often only sketched in narratives, has just as little been noticed. With her essay, Nora Schmidt promised to start working on this gap. " (Angelika Neuwirth, Berlin)
