The story of Joseph is one that describes God’s interaction in a way that is as intimate and as humanly sensitive as few stories in the Bible. However, at the same time, this narrative has features in it that sound so familiar and so real that most of it could have easily happened in our own day! So, let us immediately dig into this narrative and see why Scripture has dedicated such a large block of content to Joseph. Walter C. Kaiser graduated from Wheaton College and Graduate School, obtaining his Ph.D. at Brandeis University. He then taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he served as vice president and academic dean from 1980 to 1992. In 1993 he moved to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he was a professor of Old Testament and spent many months of the year teaching internationally. He became president of Gordon-Conwell in 1997 and retired in 2006. He is currently President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and Ethics and lives on a farm in Wisconsin with his wife, Nancy.