Vocal selections for voice and piano.

Recounts how Joseph's jealous brothers sold him into slavery and how he grew up to become an important man and save their lives during a famine.

"Stephen Mitchell's gift is to breathe new life into ancient classics. ..He offers us his riveting novelistic version of the Biblical tale in which Jacob's favorite son is sold into slavery and eventually becomes viceroy of Egypt. Tolstoy called it the most beautiful story in the world. What's new here is the lyrical, witty, vivid prose, informed by a wisdom that brings fresh insight to this foundational legend of betrayal and all-embracing forgiveness....

Profound new telling of the Christmas story, in which the author imagines how Joseph might have felt that first night with his very special son.