From Death to Life

This monograph, the first in English on any aspect of Joseph and Aseneth, examines Aseneth''s conversion as narrated in this important but neglected apocryphal Jewish romance. An extensive history of research on Joseph and Aseneth and an analysis of key issues such as text, original language, character, provenance, date, and genre, precede and inform the study of conversion. The story of Aseneth''...