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Maurice Samuel was a significant Jewish literary and religious leader in the middle part of the last century. This book is a collection of essays he wrote that reflect on various stories from the Hebrew Bible. The finest of them, in my mind, is the last one of the volume on the tale of Joseph from Genesis 37-50. In that essay Samuel takes issue with the vast four-volume retelling of the story from Thomas Mann, "Joseph and his Brothers," a group of books that Samuel claims to revere, but with which he pointedly disagrees. As he puts it, "C'est magnifique, mais c'est ne pas Joseph." Mann, according to Samuel, has made Joseph far too much the model of righteous behavior, while the biblical tale itself presents to the careful reader a much more nuanced portrait. I quite agree with him, and the other essays offer equally insightful and probing analyses. A 67 year old book still well worth a read.