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According to the Bible, Joseph was embalmed and buried in a coffin in Egypt, after having his people swear to carry his bones away. [41] Later midrash identify his first entombment in a royal mausoleum, or as cast into the Nile.
Immediately Joseph’s coffin floated up. (Alternatively, Rabbi Nathan cites a tradition that Joseph was buried in the crypt of the Egyptian kings. When Moses came to the burial site and made his declaration, Joseph’s bones rattled, signaling to Moses whose they were.)
The Jews then buried Joseph's remains – which had been carried along from Egypt – in the plot of land which Jacob had bought, and designated Shechem as a City of Refuge and a Levite city. Joseph's Tomb as it appeared in the 19th century.
Its purpose is unknown but one historic account claims that it marked the spot where Joseph was buried (see Joseph's Tomb), the area having been excavated by a Muslim caliph, under the influence of a local tradition regarding Joseph's tomb. [9]
According to Jewish tradition, Joseph was buried in the biblical town of Shechem, which is near the present-day city of Nablus. Some archeologists believe the site is only a few centuries old and may contain the remains of a Muslim sheik named Yossef.
The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
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Oct 16, 2015 · Because there is no archaeological proof of where Joseph was buried, the tomb, located in the city of Nablus, is more properly, according to Freund, a “relic” site rather than a historic site.
