PhD thesis: Elder, The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Literature (Nicholas Elder). A recent PhD thesis from Marquette University.

Taken together, the application of my five criteria to Joseph and Aseneth and Mark and the afterlives of these texts makes the case that there are remarkable similarities between the two narratives, explained by composition via dictation.

For some earlier comments on Joseph and Aseneth see here and links. And some related posts are here, here, here, and here. Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.

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