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Joseph and Asenath
Joseph and Asenath is an embellished account of Joseph’s relationship with Asenath, the daughter of the Egyptian priest of Heliopolis. Joseph’s marriage to Asenath, given only a brief mention in Genesis 41:45–50 and 46:20, is herein turned into a sweeping narrative describing Asenath’s conversion to faith in YHWH, her subsequent marriage to Joseph, the birth of Ephraim and Manasseh, and a fanciful plot by Pharaoh’s son, along with Dan and Gad, to kill Joseph. The story is thought to have been written sometime between 200 BC and AD 200, either as a Jewish midrash with later Christian interpolations, or as a Judeo-Christian work from the onset.
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