Summary. Joseph (Genesis 37-50), favoured son of Jacob, was sold into Egypt by his brothers, rose through providential reversals to become Pharaoh’s vizier, and preserved Israel through the seven-year famine. In DP he is treated as a foreshadow of the Messianic role: rejected by his own and yet becoming the means of life for them — including Gentiles — and ultimately drawing his brothers under his protective dominion.