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NATHANIEL A JONES

Dreams / grain / palace power

The Dreamer of Egypt

HE DREAMED OF KINGDOMS. HE WOKE TO A PRISON.

A young man with the gift of dreams is sold into slavery, imprisoned, and forgotten — until the dreams he cannot stop having begin to shape the fate of an empire.

The Story

ABOUT THIS SERIES

Long before Pharaoh ordered Hebrew sons thrown into the Nile, another Pharaoh entrusted Egypt's survival to a Hebrew prisoner. His name was Joseph. But history never belongs to one person alone.

The Dreamer of Egypt enters the familiar story of Joseph through the people whose lives collide with his extraordinary rise—from betrayal and slavery to imprisonment, palace power, famine and reunion.

A young man sold by his own brothers arrives in Egypt with nothing. He is foreign. Enslaved. Powerless.

And yet the ability that once made his brothers resent him will eventually bring him before the most powerful man in Egypt. Dreams become warnings. Warnings become policy. And policy becomes the difference between a civilisation starving and surviving.

Around Joseph are Egyptians who must decide what to make of the foreigner whose insight seems impossible: servants and officials, prisoners and powerful households, administrators and ordinary families whose futures will be shaped by decisions made in palace chambers they will never enter.

Meanwhile, far from Egypt, a family broken by jealousy continues living with the consequences of what it did to one of its own. Years pass. The famine comes. And eventually the brothers who sold Joseph will stand before a ruler they do not recognise and bow.

The Dreamer of Egypt is a story about betrayal, false accusation, endurance, power, forgiveness and the strange paths by which broken lives can become part of something much larger. Readers may know where Joseph's story ends. This series asks them to experience what it cost everyone to get there.

Reader Promise

A sweeping historical retelling of Joseph's journey from the pit to the palace, expanding the biblical account through the lives of Egyptians, Hebrews, families, servants and officials caught within his remarkable story.

The Characters

MEET THE PLAYERS

J

Protagonist

Joseph

A Hebrew dreamer sold into slavery by his own brothers. From pit to prison to palace, his gift for interpreting dreams carries him before the most powerful man in Egypt and back into history.

J

Supporting

Jacob

Joseph's father, whose favouritism lit the jealousy that scattered his family. He mourns the son he believes lost while never learning that he lives on far away.

J

Supporting

Judah

One of the brothers who sold Joseph, burdened in the years afterward by what the family did to its own. His name will one day be spoken at the moment of reckoning.

R

Supporting

Reuben

The eldest brother, who tried to rescue Joseph from the pit and carry him home. He carries the guilt of what happened when his protection failed.

B

Supporting

Benjamin

Joseph's youngest brother, the favourite who took his place in Jacob's heart. His arrival in Egypt will become the hinge on which the whole family's fate turns.

P

Supporting

Potiphar

The Egyptian official who takes Joseph into his household and trusts him with everything he owns. That trust shatters when a false charge sends the dreamer to prison.

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Antagonist

Potiphar's Wife

The woman whose false accusation destroys Joseph's standing and thrusts him into the king's prison. Her lie becomes the detour that leads a slave to the throne.

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Ruler

Pharaoh

The ruler of Egypt whose unsettling dreams no adviser can explain. Desperate for an interpreter, he entrusts his kingdom's future to a Hebrew prisoner.

The World

The Nile

The lifeblood of Egypt — a river that gave a nation everything, until it turned against them.

Locations

  • The Palace
  • The River
  • The Desert
  • The Delta

Factions

  • The Throne of Egypt
  • The Hebrews
  • The Priests of the Gods

Artefacts

  • The Staff
  • The Tablets

Terminology

Pharaoh
The ruler of Egypt, believed to be a god.
The Plagues
The judgments that fell upon Egypt.

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