Joseph and Aseneth
Nir, Rivka / Nir, Rivokah
Joseph and Aseneth, a book of the Old Testament Pseud--epigrapha, is a love story about the biblical Joseph and hisEgyptian wife Aseneth which, in richly symbolic language, tells how the idol worshipper Aseneth was converted to beliefin the one God. In recent decades, it has featured prominentlyin discussions of Second Temple Judaism as a testimony to aHellenistic diaspora Judaism that neither observed the rules ofconversion to Judaism (giyyur...