Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780190878993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Jill Hicks-Keeton

Opis

Arguing with Aseneth reads the ancient romance Joseph and Aseneth as a participant in ancient Jewish debates around gentile access to Israel's God. It traces how Joseph and Aseneth builds a case through its heroine for gentile incorporation and how other ancient Jewish thinkers, including Paul, would have argued back.

Recenzje

Joseph and Aseneth presents an intriguing query into the function and intention of universal language. ...Hicks-Keeton participates in broader trends in the study of early Judaism which recognizes that later works incorporating scriptural stories did not merely comment on scriptural stories but crafted new tales of their own -- tales informed by the author's own historical contexts, concerns, and aspirations. The author of Joseph and Aseneth used the biblical story as a gateway to voice their own conceptions of Jewishness amidst a landscape of cultural contestation. Hicks-Keeton in Arguing with Aseneth listens to that creative voice and imagines the stakes of Aseneth's story for God-worshipping gentiles.

O autorze

Jill Hicks-Keeton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she is also affiliate faculty in Judaic Studies. She taught previously at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In 2018, she was recognized as a Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar, having been nominated by the Southwestern Region.