[xzins]

Joseph was born to the Iraqi nomad, Jacob, during Jacob’s sojourn in the household of Laban, in Iraq.

Jacob was the son of Isaac, also a nomad, an inhabitant of the Negev Desert.

Joseph, the Iraqi/Egyptian/Palestinian then became 2nd in command in Egypt.

Using the American anchor baby and immigration standards, he was a citizen of Iraq, Israel, and Egypt.

Joseph, though, was not a Muslim. They did not exist until the 6th century AD, iirc. Nor was he a “religious Jew” since that religion started some 400 years after Joseph.

He was a God-Believer.

[QQQQ]

“that” religion is 5767 years old :-)

[Just mythoughts]

I just skimmmmmed through Genesis and Abraham was born in modern day Iraq but he was called Hebrew. You must be using a different Bible than I have.

[Parthalan]

Since most of this information is based on the Christian Bible or Jewish Tora, one this is missing from post #41.

Jacob is also known as Isreal. Thus since Joseph is the son of Isreal, Joseph is an Isrealite. Since he predates Islam it is difficult to be a Muslim, one who practices Islam.

Joseph had 12 brothers who became the 12 tribes of Isreal. So is the brother of the nation of Isreal and son of the person Isreal a Muslim?

[beckysueb]

But the Jews actually started with Gods promise to Abraham to make a great nation of his offspring. Joseph was one of the Hebrews. He was sold into bondage to Egypt. He later brought his family to Egypt to save them from the Famine in their homeland. Then several hundreds of years later, they were placed into bondage and Moses came along and led the Hebrews to the promised land which was Israel. Of course it was much larger than before the Israeli leaders have given up most of it to Palistine.