Seeing all the paths and stories of his myriad possible lives, Joseph discovers what he must do when his brothers unknowingly meet him in Egypt. “This is the moment to which all other moments have led. We meet at the…

Jacob’s youngest son, Benjamin, senses the contradictions in his brothers’ tales about Joseph’s supposed death, and yearns to escape his family’s control. “There is no silence within me: I hear the noise between the cracks in the stories they tell.”…

Jacob’s son Judah, guilty about selling his brother Joseph as a slave, leaves his father’s home to try to start a new life. “When my eyes are open, the colors stain my view, distorting all that I see. These are…

Inside a dream, Jacob sees his real life as a metaphor, as he prepares to meet his returning brother Esau. “When he reaches me, embraces me, I feel the void in my life, then feel it filled.” My friend and…

Sensing that one son is plotting to steal a blessing from the other, the aged Isaac has to decide how to respond. “Frenzies may surround me. Change may erupt around me. Emotions may disrupt my family. I choose to be…

A stranger from the future, Miriam, asks Abraham’s wife, Sarah, to step outside of time to join the school of prophets that bears her name. “Has the heart of time itself been broken?” Sarah’s life, viewed as presented in the…

In rescinding his command requiring Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, God passes Abraham’s test. “The gods of this land demand flesh, demand fire, demand blood.” [youtube url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8S2HirAGE”] Joseph Zitt performs “Abraham” at the Coventry Village Library, Cleveland Heights, Ohio,…

The son of Lot and Lot’s daughter yearns to find his father and be closer to his grandfather, not realizing that Lot is both. “I no longer ask my mother who my father was, since the question sends her from…

Abraham’s nephew, Lot, meets Orpheus. Each is mourning his wife, who was lost when the husband or wife looked back while fleeing places of death. “You lost her to the flames?” “No, not directly. I thought that I had lost…

As Abraham’s father repairs an idol that his son damaged, he tells it of Abraham’s rejection of their fathers’ gods and embrace of a single nameless god. Here: if I hammer this thin brass nail down through your hair, along…