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Author Chesnutt, Randall D., 1951-

Title From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / Randall D. Chesnutt
Published Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 16
Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; 16.
Contents Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: PROLEGOMENA; Chapter 1 HISTORY OF RESEARCH; Early Contributions; P. Batiffol''s Contribution and its Aftermath; Stimulus from the Qumran Discoveries and the Study of Christian Origins; Landmark Monographs; Recent Studies; Application to New Testament Study; New Annotated Translations; Chapter 2 TEXT, ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, CHARACTER, PROVENANCE, DATE AND GENRE: THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH; Text; Original Language; Character; Provenance; Date; Genre; Retrospect and Prospect; PART II: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part II
Chapter 3 THE LITERARY CONTEXT: SOCIAL TENSIONS IN THE NARRATIVE OF ASENETH''S CONVERSIONJews and Gentiles; Internal Jewish Dissension; Familial Ostracism of the Convert; Chapter 4 FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL FEATURES OF ASENETH''S CONVERSION; Elements of a Ritual Form?; Conceptual Features; Conclusion; PART III: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 5 JEWISH PROSELYTISM; Requirements for the Admission of Proselytes: Rabbinic Dicta; The Silence of Joseph and Aseneth concerning These Requirements; Points of Comparison; Conclusion
Chapter 6 INITIATION INTO GROUPS WITHIN JUDAISM: ESSENES, THERAPEUTAE, HABUROTH, GNOSTICS, AND MERKABAH MYSTICSEssenes; Therapeutae; Haburoth; Gnostics; Merkabah Mystics; Conclusion; Chapter 7 MYSTERY INITIATION; Method; Isiac Initiation: A Descriptive Analysis; Isiac Initiation and the Conversion of Aseneth: Comparisons and Contrasts; Conclusion; Chapter 8 CONCLUSIONS; Conclusions regarding the Conversion of Aseneth; The Conversion of Aseneth and the Readership and Purpose of Joseph and Aseneth; Desiderata; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
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Summary 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
Analysis Judaism Religious experiences Conversion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-295) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Joseph and Aseneth -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Joseph and Aseneth fast
Joseph et Aseneth gnd
Subject Conversion -- History
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
Conversion
Konversion Religion
Josef en Asenath (anoniem)
Bekering.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567347695
0567347699