Arguing with Aseneth: gentile access to Israel's living God in Jewish antiquity

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. Writ...

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Main Author: Hicks-Keeton, Jill 1983- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Reviews:[Rezension von: Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983-, Arguing with Aseneth : Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity] (2020) (Oegema, Gerbern S., 1958 -)
[Rezension von: Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983-, Arguing with Aseneth : Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity] (2019) (Jacobs, Naomi S. S.)
[Rezension von: Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983-, Arguing with Aseneth : Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity] (2021) (Elder, Nicholas A.)
[Rezension von: Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983-, Arguing with Aseneth : Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity] (2023) (Wright, Jonathon)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Joseph and Aseneth
B Israel (Antiquity) / Teenagers / Idea of God
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Joseph and Aseneth Criticism, interpretation, etc Joseph and Aseneth
B Joseph and Aseneth Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Gentiles in the Bible
B Joseph and Aseneth
B Thesis
B God
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
B God Biblical teaching
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0190878991