Coat of many colors

According to the King James Version, Genesis 37:3 reads, "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

"[10] Adrien J. Bledstein states that the kətonet passim was a "flounced garment of woven strips" that was ankle-length, pleated or gathered, and would have been prohibitively expensive to make.

Mesopotamian artistic representations of these animal skins make it appear that the fleece or hair was in tiers, the one above overlapping the one below, resembling what we call flouncing.

Mann was keenly interested in the coat and studied its etymology, referring to it in German with translations that reflect both the many-colored and long-sleeved aspects of the garment, as well as calling it by the untranslated ketonet passim.

The coat is covered in images which refer back to ancient Mesopotamian myths, contributing to the way in which Mann associates Joseph with characters from other religious traditions such as the Buddha and Hermes.

[12] Recent scholarship, especially among literary critics, has noted how the exhortation to "identify" and the theme of recognition in Genesis 37:32–33 also appears in 38:25–26, in the story of Judah and Tamar.

Jacob blesses Joseph and gives him the coat.
Joseph cast into the pit.
Semitic visitor to Egypt, described as "Abisha the Hyksos " leading a group of Aamu ( Ancient Egyptian : ꜥꜣmw " West Asians "), in the painting of a group of foreigners in the Tomb of Khnumhotep II , c. 1900 BC . Howard Vos has suggested that the "coat of many colours" said to have been worn by Joseph could be similar to the colorful foreign garments seen in the painting. [ 2 ]
Ford Madox Brown , The Coat of Many Colours ; some have suggested that the phrase may merely mean a "coat with long sleeves"