Hicks-Keeton, Arguing with Aseneth

FORTHCOMING BOOK FROM OUP:

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

Jill Hicks-Keeton

• Provides a new paradigm for framing the questions of provenance of "Joseph and Aseneth"
• Makes the new argument about why Aseneth's tale was authored and what narrative function it served in antiquity
• Offers a new way to contextualize the apostle Paul within the Judaism of his day

The publication date is given as 25 October 2018, but it can be preordered now.

Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.

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