When Aseneth Met Joseph
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-025399-8 (ISBN)
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.
Ross Shepard Kraemer is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Brown University.
Preface ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction ; Part I: Reinterpreting Aseneth ; 2 Composing Aseneth: The Construction of Aseneth out of Traditional Elements and Techniques ; 3 Recasting Aseneth: The Enhancement of Traditional Elements in the Longer Reconstruction ; 4 Aseneth and the Adjuration of Angels ; 5 Aseneth and Mystical Transformation in the Hekhalot Traditions ; 6 Aseneth and Late Antique Religious Sensibilities ; 7 Why Is Aseneth a Woman? The Use and Significance of Gender in the Aseneth Stories ; Part II: Relocating Aseneth ; 8 The Dating of Aseneth Reconsidered ; 9 The Authorial Identity of Aseneth Reconsidered ; 10 The Provenance of Aseneth Reconsidered ; 11 Aseneth Reconsidered ; Appendix: Aseneth in Rabbinic Traditions ; Bibliography ; Index of Ancient Sources ; Index of Modern Authors ; Index of Subjects
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2015 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 546 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-025399-1 / 0190253991 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-025399-8 / 9780190253998 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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