Most of the early Bible stories offer insightful clues on the nature of man and interesting perspectives on God's earliest interventions into the affairs of man. You are likely familiar with the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, Noah and his ark floating in the worst flood ever as others perished all about and thereafter the biblical account of the calling of Abraham. But perhaps the most dramatic of them all and one which could comfortably fit into a prime-time T.V. series today is that of Jacob and his rather large family. It culminated in Joseph, his second last-born, rising at a dizzying rate to great political power in a foreign land. However after the story of Joseph things tend to get a little murky for most people. Enter Moses and the miraculous calamities he invokes over the land of Egypt. Many are stamped by the unabashed references to cataclysmic events that seem to be overtly aimed against the Egyptian economy and more covertly at their pagan gods. A