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From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth /
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, ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©1995.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ;
16. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 ass. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-295) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567347695 0567347699 |