Dead Sea Scrolls-? Joseph and Aseneth
Questions:
1. What is there to suggest that chapters 22-29 are an addition to the story?
2. What attitudes do chapters 1-21 convey about proselytism or conversion?
3. What is reception history and how is it used by Collins in his argument that Joseph and Aseneth is a Jewish text.
4. How does one best determine the religious affiliation of a text? What criteria does Collins use? What criteria does he discount?
5. Collins argues that Jewish and Christian writers view the issue of intermarriage differently. How does he see them differ and do you agree?
6. If the author/audience were Hellenized Jews, would this make a difference to Penn’s argument based on the cultural traditions of kissing?
7. How safe is it to use one criterion to assess authorial identity?
Readings:
? Joseph and Aseneth: see, e.g.online, e.g. http://www.markgoodacre.org/aseneth/translat.htm
? # Burchard, C., ?Joseph and Aseneth?, in Outside the Old Testament (Cambridge Commenta?ries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World 200BC to 200AD; ed. M. de Jonge; Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985) 92-110. [[introduction, text, and commentary]]
? * Collins, John J., ?Joseph and Aseneth: Jewish or Christian??, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 14 (2005) 97-112
? * Penn, M., ?Identity Transformation and Authorial Identification in Joseph and Aseneth?, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 13 (2002) 171-183.

Further Reading:
# Bohak, Gideon, Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis (SBLEJL 10; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996) 83-97.
# Burchard, C., ?Joseph and Aseneth?, in Outside the Old Testament (Cambridge Commenta?ries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World 200BC to 200AD; ed. M. de Jonge; Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985) 92-110.
# Chesnutt, Randall D., From Death to Life: Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth (JSPSup 16; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) 97-117, 254-265.
# Kraemer, Ross S., When Aseneth met Joseph: a late antique tale of the biblical patriarch and his Egyptian wife, reconsidered (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) 294-306.
# Nickelsburg, George E.W., Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah (London: SCM, 1981) 258-263.
# Wills, Lawrence M., The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) 158-184.
* Lieber, A., ?I Set a Table before You: The Jewish Eschatological Character of Aseneth?s Conversion Meal?, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14 (2004) 63-77.
See also Main Bibliography, under ?Joseph and Aseneth?

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