Joseph the Carpenter: His Reception in Literature and Art from the Second to the Ninth Century

by Philip Jacobs

In this ground-breaking examination of responses to Joseph the Carpenter, Dr. Jacobs offers fresh insight into the historic understanding and perception of this often forgotten figure.

Challenging assumptions about the ways Joseph was understood and perceived in the first several centuries of Christianity, Jacobs begins his study with a thorough review of the earliest narrative portrayals of Joseph in the New Testament. Subsequently, he carefully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905679343
• ISBN13: 9781905679348
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 284 Pages