link preexisting stories of ancestral promises in Canaan to an Exodus narrative of oppression in and liberation from Egypt. Coats described the two principal goals of the Joseph story as (1) to describe reconciliation in a broken family despite the lack of merit of any of its members, and (2) to describe the characteristics of an ideal administrator. Genesis chapter 41 James Charlesworth reported the relation between the biblical narrative of and the Ancient Greek History of Joseph. Its theological relevance is, among other elements, in that Joseph is called "king of the people" "foster father" or – more literally – "nourisher of Egyptians" and "savior", while there occurred many times the phrases "the God of Joseph" and "Joseph remembering Jacob", emphasizing the ancestral role of his forefathers and not to have since lent support to different traditions. Their union is similar to the Biblical expression "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob", in . The History of Joseph is also related with Joseph and Aseneth and the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. In Joseph and Aseneth, Joseph is again referred as "king" (basileus), "giver of grain" (sinodotēs) and "savior" (sōter), in the same line of text (25:6), whereas the central theme of the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs is "Joseph remembering Jacob", "while recounting the temptation by the wife of Potiphar". Genesis chapter 43 Malbim read the steward's words to the brothers in , "Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure", to mean that since the money being brought to Egypt from all over the world was only "a treasure" – that is, hidden away in the treasury until the time of the Exodus from Egypt, when it would become the Israelites' – the steward told the brothers that their treasure could remain in their sacks, for it made no sense to place it in Pharaoh's treasury, when it was destined for them in any case. Nahum Sarna wrote that the steward's reassuring reply was intelligible only on the assumption that he was privy to Joseph's scheme. His purpose was to lull the brothers into a false sense of relief. Robert Alter wrote that the steward dismissed the brothers' fears by introducing a kind of fairy tale explanation for the silver that they found in their bags. But Jon Levenson wrote that the steward sensed the hand of a beneficent Providence in the strange events.