Research Catalog

Title

Aseneth of Egypt : the composition of a Jewish narrative / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll.

Author

Ahearne-Kroll, Patricia D.

Publication

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

xvi, 285 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Aseneth of Egypt examines texts of Joseph and Aseneth to propose a base storyline that can be used to locate the story's origin. Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll contextualizes the story of Joseph and Aseneth in Hellenistic Egypt by demonstrating how the base storyline reflects the literary impulse of Greek-speaking Jewish writers to redescribe their identity in Egypt, Ptolemaic strategies of legitimation of power, and Judean connections to the land of Egypt"--

Series Statement

Early Judaism and its literature ; Number 53

Uniform Title

Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 53.

Subject

• Joseph and Aseneth > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Joseph and Aseneth
• Judaism > Egypt > Heliopolis (Extinct city)
• Judaism
• Egypt > Heliopolis (Extinct city)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and indexes.

Contents

1. The Reconstructed Texts of Aseneth and Their Limitations: The Analysis of Standhartinger and Kraemer. The Textual Witnesses of Aseneth ; The Reconstructions of Burchard and Philonenko; The Revival of Philonenko's Reconstruction: Standhartinger's Analysis ; The Revival of Philonenko's Reconstruction: Kraemer's Analysis ; The Limitations of Comparing the Reconstructed Texts of Aseneth -- 2. The Reconstructed Texts of Aseneth and Their Limitations: The Texts of Burchard and Fink. Transmission History of the Aseneth Witnesses: Burchard's and Fink's Assessments ; The Limitations of Fink's Reconstructed Text and the Inherent Flaws of Burchard's Reconstructed Text ; A New Path to the Earliest Aseneth -- 3. The Fabula of Aseneth. Thomas's Study of the Acts of Peter ; Thomas's Model and the Textual Witnesses of Aseneth ; The Fabula of Aseneth ; The Implications of a Fabula of Aseneth -- 4. Aseneth and the Landscape of Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt. Rewriting Ancestral Identity into the Pharaonic Past ; The Narrative Landscape of Aseneth and the Environment of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Call Number

JFE 21-6198

ISBN

• 9781628372830
• 1628372834
• 9780884144571
• 0884144577

LCCN

2020012820

OCLC

1149350002

Author

Ahearne-Kroll, Patricia D., author.

Title

Aseneth of Egypt : the composition of a Jewish narrative / Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll.

Publisher

Atlanta, GA : SBL Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early Judaism and its literature ; Number 53

Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 53.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and indexes.

Other Form:

Online version: Ahearne-Kroll, Patricia D., Aseneth of Egypt Atlanta : SBL Press, 2020. 9780884144588 (DLC) 2020012821

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6198