Arguing with Aseneth
Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780190878993
- ISBN-100190878991
- Library of Congress Control Number2018016559
- OCLC Control Number1028586655
- Better World Books9780190878993
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28691134M
Classifications
- LCCBS1830.J62H53 2018
- LCCBS1830.J62 H53 2018
Description
Arguing with Aseneth' shows how the ancient Jewish romance known as 'Joseph and Aseneth' moves a minor character in Genesis from obscurity to renown, weaving a new story whose main purpose was to intervene in ancient Jewish debates surrounding gentile access to Israel's God. Written in Greco-Roman Egypt around the turn of the era, 'Joseph and Aseneth' combines the genre of the ancient Greek novel with scriptural characters from the story of Joseph as it retells Israel's mythic past to negotiate communal boundaries in its own present. With attention to the ways in which Aseneth's tale "remixes" Genesis, wrestles with Deuteronomic theology, and adopts prophetic visions of the future, 'Arguing with Aseneth' demonstrates that this ancient novel inscribes into Israel's sacred narrative a precedent for gentile inclusion in the people belonging to Israel's God.
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