Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity

by Jill Hicks-Keeton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190878991
• ISBN13: 9780190878993
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"