Joseph Und Aseneth: Kritisch Herausgegeben Von Christoph Burchard Mit Unterstützung Von Carsten Burfeind Und Uta Barbara Fink: Kritisch Herausgegeben ... (Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece, 5) - Tapa dura

This book contains the first critical edition of the ancient Jewish romance of Joseph and Aseneth with full apparatus from the entire manuscript tradition both Greek and versional. The romance tells how Aseneth, daughter of an Egyptian Priest, became the wife of Joseph, Pharao's viceroy, following her conversion to the God of the Hebrews. It is an instructive witness to Jewish diaspora theology and hence to the soil on which Christianity grew. The edition is preceded by a fifty-page introduction summarizing the history of the text and its modern reconstructions, and followed by appendices e.g. on the illustrated manuscripts and special indices to stimulate further study.

Christoph Burchard, Dr. theol. (1961) and Dr. theol. habil. (1969), Gottingen, was Professor of New Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg from 1971 to 1997. He has published books and articles on ancient Jewish literature and the New Testament, including Gesammelte Studien zu Joseph und Aseneth (Brill, 1996).