This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called
Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the
daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the
biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in
Genesis. Kraemer takes issue with the scholarly consensus that the
tale is a Jewish conversion story composed no later than the early
second century C.E. Instead, she dates it to the third or fourth
century C.E., and argues that, although no definitive answer is
presently possible, it may well be a Christian account. This
critique also raises larger issues about the dating and
identification of many similar writings, known as pseudepigrapha.
Kraemer reads its account of Aseneth's interactions with an angelic
double of Joseph in the context of ancient accounts of encounters
with powerful divine beings, including the sun god Helios, and of
Neoplatonic ideas about the fate of souls. When Aseneth Met Joseph
demonstrates the centrality of ideas about gender in the
representation of Aseneth and, by extension, offers implications
for broader concerns about gender in Late Antiquity.
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