Endnote 16 – “And His Brothers Were Jealous of Him”: Surprising Parallels Between Joseph and King Esarhaddon of Assyria

For a translation, see Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), pp. 203–211. Because of the early date of the papyrus leaves, some doubt as to whether the tale would have been available to the author(s) of the Joseph story.