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Joseph and Asenath is a narrative that dates from between 200 BCE and 200 CE. [1] It concerns the Hebrew patriarch Joseph and his marriage to Asenath, expanding the fleeting mentions of their relationship in the Book of Genesis.
Dec 1, 2021 · Ninety-one manuscripts of Aseneth (the Greek form of Asenath), sometimes called Joseph and Aseneth, dating from the 6th to the 17th centuries C.E., preserve all or part of the narrative. The story was written in Greek, and most scholars date the composition to ca. 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E..
Jul 27, 2022 · Aseneth and Joseph. Who Is Joseph’s Wife in the Bible? Aseneth, daughter of the Egyptian priest Potiphera, becomes the wife of Joseph and mother of Ephraim and Manasseh. This 13th-century mosaic from the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, Italy, shows Aseneth after having given birth to Ephraim.
Joseph & Aseneth: Translated by David Cook Hyptertext version by Dr Mark Goodacre, University of Birmingham. This translation of Joseph and Aseneth is taken from H. F. D. Sparks (ed.), The Apocryphal Old Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 473-503, and is reproduced here by permission of Oxford University Press. It must not ...
Joseph and Aseneth on Early Jewish Writings: a comprehensive sourcebook for ancient Judaism.
JOSEPH AND ASENATH, pseudepigraphic work – the story of how Asenath, daughter of Pentephres, priest of Heliopolis, converted to the worship of the God of Israel and married Joseph. The tenuous basis of this anecdote is one verse in Genesis (41:45).
The Aseneth Home Page by Dr Mark Goodacre is devoted to Joseph and Aseneth, a tale told about the Biblical Patriarch Joseph and his Egyptian wife Aseneth, usually classed as part of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It features introduction, a translation, bibliography and links.
Joseph and Aseneth was likely composed in Greek in Egypt during Hellenistic and early Roman rule (between 100 B.C.E. and 100 C.E.), and it expresses one way that Jewish communities rewrote their heritage in Egypt—a place where many of them thrived but which their ancestral stories despised.
Joseph & Aseneth is the story of the conversion of Aseneth, the daughter of Pentephres the priest of On, from the worship of idols to the worship of the god of Joseph. Set during the seven years of plenty (Gen. 41, above), Joseph visits Pentephres.
JOSEPH AND ASENATH, pseudepigraphic work – the story of how Asenath, daughter of Pentephres, priest of Heliopolis, converted to the worship of the God of Israel and married Joseph. The tenuous basis of this anecdote is one verse in Genesis (41:45).
