Abstract
This chapter offers a speculative critique of the dominant interpretation of the stories of Jacob and Joseph in the book of Genesis. The chapter argues that Joseph is not a continuation of the patriarchal line, but a tyrannical figure and enemy of the faith of Jacob. By seeing Joseph in this light, the chapter presents a new reading of Jacob and his dream of the ladder as suggesting a more immediate, non-hierarchical, and open conception of faith. It is precisely this anarchistic conception of faith that the Joseph tradition seeks to bury in the text through the interpolation of the dream-texts and, with it, the idea of divinely controlled history. The radical politics of Jacob’s dreamscape, however, continue to present emancipatory possibilities despite the authoritarian exegetical tradition.
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