Women in the Joseph Tales
Taken from The Women's Bible Commentary
contributor: SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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Women in the Joseph Tales
The Comparative Absence of Women in the Joseph Tales.
The Joseph narrative has no heroes who are tricksters, and its women are only two: Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, mentioned in one line (41:45) as part of the reward given to Joseph for successfully interpreting Pharaoh’s dream, and Potiphar’s wife, a stock character portrayed as one of the challenges in life faced by the wise hero…
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