RT Article
T1 Why Does Joseph Wash his Face?
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 38
IS 1
SP 3
OP 14
A1 Yoo, Philip Y. 1978-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777015499
AB Genesis 43.31a contains the only description of someone washing his or her face in the Hebrew Bible. Did the author purposefully select his words to signify a crucial junction in the narrative? Few examples from the biblical corpus and extra-biblical witnesses can be cited for comparison. Locating the narrative of Genesis 42–43 in its specific context, descriptions of face-washing from recovered Egyptian witnesses suggest that a foreign motif is the influence for the terse, yet precise, description of a Hebrew protagonist coping with his emotions in another part of the world.
K1 Egypt
K1 face-washing
K1 Joseph (figure)
K1 Joseph Story
K1 Genesis
DO 10.1177/0309089213492842