Joseph and Asenath
Posted: February 19th, 2012, 8:47 am
There is a pseudepigraphical work titled Joseph and Asenath (among other names). It relates how Joseph when he went to Egypt could marry an Egyptian wife from whom he sired Ephraim and Mannaseh. Mark Goodacre keeps a web page on it at http://www.markgoodacre.org/aseneth/biblio.htm#greek. The Greek version (partly reconstructed?) can be found in the book by Pierre Batiffol in Studia Patristica (1889) on Google books at http://books.google.com/books?id=8POfAA ... ne&f=false
There is a newer text.
There is a newer text.
This looks like a fun book to read and the Greek is fairly easy but the story unfamiliar. Perhaps a reader's edition? I've extracted the pages of Batiffol's version into a separate pdf. It can be found at http://www.letsreadgreek.com/texts/jose ... senath.pdf.Christoph Burchard, "Ein vorläufiger griechischer Text von Joseph und Aseneth" in Gesammelte Studien zu Joseph und Aseneth: Berichtigt und ergänzt Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung von Carsten Burfeind (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 13; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996), pp. 161-209; also available in Dielheimer Blätter zum Alten Testament 14 (1979), pp. 2-53; & 16 (1982), pp. 37-39
Burchard's eclectic, longer text is the basis for his English translation in Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (see below). Quite the best place to access Burchard's text is in the recent Gesammelte Studien listed first here: it is easier to get hold of this and it is in computer format with diacriticals and so on. But note that the text is also available in the following volume.