From Death to Life

Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth

Randall D. Chesnutt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

1995
Sheffield Academic Press (Verlag)
978-1-85075-516-6 (ISBN)

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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's conversion has too often been understood on the basis of premature and superficial comparisons with other paradigms of conversion and initiation in the Hellenistic world. As a corrective, Chesnutt assigns priority to descriptive over comparative analysis. He draws comparisons and contrasts with other models of conversion and initiation only after he has carefully examined Aseneth's conversion in its own right within the literary context of Joseph and Aseneth and the social context which the document itself reflects. The attention not only to conversion but also to much broader social and religious dimensions of Judaism in antiquity makes this book important for specialists in Christian origins, Greco-Roman religions, women's studies, and patristics, as well as the history of Judaism

Randall D. Chesnutt is Associate Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1995
Reihe/Serie	The Library of Second Temple Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
ISBN-10	1-85075-516-7 / 1850755167
ISBN-13	978-1-85075-516-6 / 9781850755166
Zustand	Neuware