Aseneth’s Gaze Turns Swords into Dust

This article argues that Aseneth’s prayer and the divine response in Joseph and Aseneth 27.8 are later hagiological interpolations that reflect the concerns of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In the Hellenistic version of Joseph and Aseneth , the heroine performs her miraculous rescue using only her...

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Main Author: Jovanovic, Ljubica O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2011
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2011, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 83-97
Further subjects:B Hellenistic novels
B light (vision)
B Hellenistic optics
B Hellenistic science
B South-Slavic manuscripts
B science of vision
B textual reception history
B Joseph
B Vitae
B Hagiography
B Aseneth
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