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| Author | : Ross Shepard Kraemer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : Joseph and Aseneth |
| ISBN | : 9780197592229 |
This is a study of an anonymous ancient work, originally composed in Greek, titled Joseph and Aseneth. Although relatively unknown outside of scholarly circles, the story is remarkable because of its focus on a female character.
| Author | : Ross Shepard Kraemer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0190253991 |
This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis. Kraemer takes issue with the scholarly consensus that the tale is a Jewish conversion story composed no later than the early second century C.E. Instead, she dates it to the third or fourth century C.E., and argues that, although no definitive answer is presently possible, it may well be a Christian account. This critique also raises larger issues about the dating and identification of many similar writings, known as pseudepigrapha. Kraemer reads its account of Aseneth's interactions with an angelic double of Joseph in the context of ancient accounts of encounters with powerful divine beings, including the sun god Helios, and of Neoplatonic ideas about the fate of souls. When Aseneth Met Joseph demonstrates the centrality of ideas about gender in the representation of Aseneth and, by extension, offers implications for broader concerns about gender in Late Antiquity.
| Author | : Ross Shepard Kraemer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1998-08-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190492651 |
This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis. Kraemer takes issue with the scholarly consensus that the tale is a Jewish conversion story composed no later than the early second century C.E. Instead, she dates it to the third or fourth century C.E., and argues that, although no definitive answer is presently possible, it may well be a Christian account. This critique also raises larger issues about the dating and identification of many similar writings, known as pseudepigrapha. Kraemer reads its account of Aseneth's interactions with an angelic double of Joseph in the context of ancient accounts of encounters with powerful divine beings, including the sun god Helios, and of Neoplatonic ideas about the fate of souls. When Aseneth Met Joseph demonstrates the centrality of ideas about gender in the representation of Aseneth and, by extension, offers implications for broader concerns about gender in Late Antiquity.
| Author | : Ernest Walter Brooks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 1918 |
| Genre | : Joseph and Aseneth |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John J. Collins |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780802843722 |
First published in 1984, this study is now revised and updated to take into account the best of recent scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : R. A. Markus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521339490 |
Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.
| Author | : Andrei A. Orlov |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017-09-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1438466927 |
The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language.
| Author | : Simcha Jacobovici |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 754 |
| Release | : 2014-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1605987298 |
Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells the inside story of Jesus’ social, family, and political life.The Lost Gospel takes the reader on an unparalleled historical adventure through a paradigm shifting manuscript. What the authors eventually discover is as astounding as it is surprising: the confirmation of Jesus’ marriage to Mary Magdalene; the names of their two children; the towering presence of Mary Magdalene; a previously unknown plot on Jesus’ life (thirteen years prior to the crucifixion); an assassination attempt against Mary Magdalene and their children; Jesus’ connection to political figures at the highest level of the Roman Empire; and a religious movement that antedates that of Paul—the Church of Mary Magdalene.Part historical detective story, part modern adventure, The Lost Gospel reveals secrets that have been hiding in plain sight for millennia.
| Author | : John J. Collins |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2017-02-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520294114 |
"Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2018-12-17 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110366894 |
The story of Joseph and Aseneth is a fascinating expansion of the narrative in Genesis of Joseph in Egypt, and in particular, of his marriage to the daughter of an Egyptian priest. This study examines the portrayal of Aseneth’s transformation in the text, focusing on three perspectives. How did Aseneth’s encounter with Joseph and her subsequent transformation affect various aspects of her identity in the narrative? In what ways do the portrayals of Aseneth, her transformation, and her abode relate to select metaphors and other symbolic features depicted in the Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible, and the Pseudepigrapha? And, how do the ritualized components through which Aseneth’s transformation occurred function in the narrative, and why are they perceived as effective? In order to shed light on these facets of Joseph and Aseneth, the author draws on the contemporary approaches of intersectionality, conceptual blending, intertextual blending, and the cognitive theory of rituals, using these theoretical frameworks to explore and illuminate the complexity of Aseneth’s transformation.
