“Dreamer.”It’s an odd epithet. These days, it evokes this country’s immigration debate, but it also conjures up naivety and a lack of being rooted in reality. We hear it used in just such a pejorative way when we read the story of Joseph and his famous technicolor dreamcoat from the Book of Genesis. Joseph’s brothers say to one another, “Here comes this dreamer,” just before they threaten to kill him and throw him into a pit.Now at one [...]
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