Asenath

Asenath from "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Asenath ( Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : Asənat , Tiberian : ʼĀsənạṯ ) or Asenith (in modern times sometimes transliterated as Osnat ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis , an Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph son of Jacob to be his wife. The daughter of Potipherah , a priest of On , she bore Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim , who became the patriarchs of the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim . Modern scholarship says her name derives from the Egyptian "holy to Anath ", and that her name may be phonetically transliterated from the New Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphs as Ns-Nt . Genesis records nothing more about Asenath, but her story is elaborated in the apocryphal Joseph and Asenath . There, she is a virgin who rejects several worthy suitors in favor of Joseph, but Joseph will not have a pagan for a wife. She locks herself in a tower and rejects her idolatry in favor of Joseph's God Yahweh , and receives a visit from an angel who accepts her conversion. A ritual involving a honeycomb follows. Bees cover her and sting her lips to remove the false prayers to the pagan gods of her past. Joseph now consents to marry her. She bears him their sons Mannaseh and Ephraim. Pharaoh's son wants Asenath for himself, however, and with the aid of Joseph's brothers Dan and Gad , he conspires to kill her husband. The loyal brother Benjamin interferes, and Pharaoh's son is ultimately slain. Asenath forgives the conspirators, and she and Joseph rule over Egypt for 48 years, after which they pass the crown to Pharaoh's grandson. The Midrash Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer records a view that Asenath was actually the daughter of Joseph's sister Dinah , conceived in her rape by Shechem. Some of the circumstantial textual evidence supporting this view is laid out in an article by John Pratt. "Asenath" or "Osnat" ( Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : Asənat , Tiberian : ʼĀsənạṯ ) is a commonly used female first name in present-day Israel . Asenath is the name of a character in H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep .

Asenath from Guillaume Rouillé 's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Joseph and Asenath Asenath ( / ˈ æ s [invalid input: 'i-'] n æ θ / ; Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : Osnát , Tiberian : ʼOsnaṯ ) or Asenith (in modern times sometimes transliterated as Osnat ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis (41:45, 41:50-52), an Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph son of Jacob to be his wife. The daughter of Potipherah , a priest of On , she bore Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim , who became the patriarchs of the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim . Modern scholarship says her name derives from the Egyptian "she who belongs to (the goddess) Neith ", and that her name may be phonetically transliterated from the New Kingdom Egyptian hieroglyphs as Ns-Nt . Hoffmeier, Israel in Egypt (1999) 85, 101 n 79

Asenath from Guillaume Rouillé 's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Joseph and Asenath Joseph meets Asenath (1490s painting) Asenath ( / ˈ æ s ɪ n æ θ / , Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : ʾAsənat , Tiberian : ʾĀsenaṯ ) is a minor figure in the Book of Genesis .

Biblical figure Joseph and Asenath Joseph meets Asenath (1490s painting) Asenath ( / ˈ æ s ɪ n æ θ / , Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : ʾŎsnát , Tiberian : ʾĀsnaṯ ; Koine Greek : Ἀσενέθ, Asenéth ) is a minor figure in the Book of Genesis . Asenath was a high-born, aristocratic Egyptian woman. She was the wife of Joseph and the mother of his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim . There are two Rabbinic approaches to Asenath. One holds that she was an Egyptian woman that converted to marry Joseph. This view has her accepting God before marriage and then raising her two sons in the tenets of Judaism. This presents her as a positive example of conversion to Judaism and places her among the devout women converts. The other approach argues she was not Egyptian by descent, but was from the family of Jacob . Traditions that trace her to the family of Jacob relate that she was born as the daughter of Dinah . Dinah was raped by Shechem and gave birth to Asenath, whom Jacob left on the wall of Egypt, where she was later found by Potiphar . She was then raised by Potiphar's wife and eventually married Joseph. Asenath's importance is related to the birth of her two sons, who later become forefathers of two of the Twelve Tribes of Israel . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore ; et al., eds.

Biblical figure Joseph and Asenath Joseph meets Asenath (1490s painting). Asenath ( / ˈ æ s ɪ n æ θ / , Hebrew : אָסְנַת , Modern : ʾŎsnát , Tiberian : ʾĀsnaṯ ; Koine Greek : Ἀσενέθ, Asenéth ) is a minor figure in the Book of Genesis . Asenath was a high-born, aristocratic Egyptian woman. She was the wife of Joseph and the mother of his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim . There are two Rabbinic approaches to Asenath. One holds that she was an Egyptian woman who converted to marry Joseph. This view has her accepting God before marriage and then raising her two sons in the tenets of Judaism. This presents her as a positive example of conversion to Judaism and places her among the devout women converts. The other approach argues she was not Egyptian by descent but was from the family of Jacob . Traditions that trace her to the family of Jacob relate that she was born as the daughter of Dinah . Dinah was raped by Shechem and gave birth to Asenath, whom Jacob left on the wall of Egypt, where she was later found by Potiphar . She was then raised by Potiphar's wife and eventually married Joseph. However, in Genesis Rabbah 80:11 she is not stated to be Dinah's daughter; rather, Dinah's rape resulted in her giving birth to Shaul, the son of Simeon. Asenath's importance is related to the birth of her two sons, who later become forefathers of two of the Twelve Tribes of Israel . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore ; et al., eds.