!["I Am Joseph" by Shoshannah Brombacher; pastel and ink on paper , 12 X 18 inches, New York, 2008](https://w2.chabad.org/media/images/255/gCEj2556073.jpg?_i=_nD6C4982354E8EEFCE433D827A3375C36 ""I Am Joseph" by Shoshannah Brombacher; pastel and ink on paper , 12 X 18 inches, New York, 2008")
"I Am Joseph" by Shoshannah Brombacher; pastel and ink on paper , 12 X 18 inches, New York, 2008
In a very emotional scene (Genesis 45:1-3) Joseph reveals to his brothers who he is: their younger brother whom they sold to Egypt many years ago, and who is now the governor of Egypt.
It is a huge shock for the brothers. They would have expected anything but this!
The Hebrew text in the painting says, short and powerful: "I am Joseph" (Genesis 45:3). The figure looking at the scene from the right is the former "Joseph," the handsome boy who was sold as a slave years ago and whom they remember, and whom they assume dead. They had not recognized the Egyptian official in his foreign clothes as their lost brother.
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