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Asenath
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Asenath (ăs`ənăth), in the Bible, Poti-phera's daughter, the Egyptian wife of Joseph, mother of Manasseh and Ephraim. Her betrothal to Joseph and conversion to Judaism are the subject of Joseph and Asenath, one of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Pseudepigrapha [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 B.C. and c.A.D. 200, not found in the Bible or rabbinic writings.
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When Aseneth Met Thecla: Desire and Restraint in Two Conversion Tales,' paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the SBL.
Some scholars have turned to Jewish "novels" such as Tobit, Joseph and Aseneth, 1-4 Maccabees, Susanna, or even Judith to see how Jews told their own stories of the ways of God and the demands of discipleship.
Among the topics are Egypt as the setting for Joseph and Aseneth, the Wisdom of Solomon and the Gnostic Sophia, Cleopatra in Josephus, expectations of Nero's return in the Egyptian Sibylline Oracles Book Five, martyrdom and gender in ancient Alexandria, the Gospel of Thomas and the historical Jesus, and human degradation and the recovery of the primal condition according to some early Christian texts.
 
 
 
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