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Arguing with Aseneth - Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Arguing with Aseneth - Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Hardcover)
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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. Aseneth is transformed from material mother of the sons of
Joseph to a mediator of God's mercy and life to future penitents,
Jew and gentile alike. Yet not all Jewish thinkers in antiquity
drew boundary lines the same way or in the same place. Arguing with
Aseneth traces, then, not only the way in which Joseph and Aseneth
affirms the possibility of gentile incorporation but also ways in
which other ancient Jewish thinkers, including the apostle Paul,
would have argued back, contesting Joseph and Aseneth's very
conclusions or offering alternative, competing strategies of
inclusion. With its use of a female protagonist, Joseph and Aseneth
offers a distinctive model of gentile incorporation-one that
eschews lines of patrilineal descent and undermines ethnicity and
genealogy as necessary markers of belonging. Such a reading of this
narrative shows us that we need to rethink our accounts of how
ancient Jewish thinkers, including our earliest example from the
Jesus Movement, negotiated who was in and who was out when it came
to the people of Israel's God.
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