Negotiation in the Contact Zone: Reading Joseph and Aseneth from a Postcolonial Perspective

In Joseph and Aseneth, religious difference is the decisive boundary that separates Aseneth (gentile) and Joseph (Jew). Therefore, Aseneth’s conversion is essential to cross over this boundary in the narrative. In this respect, one may see Joseph and Aseneth as a colonizing text that seems to romant...

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Main Author: Jun, Sunhee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 229-247
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Babylonian Captivity / Perspective / Negociation / Interculturality / Joseph and Aseneth / Ambiguity
RelBib Classification:HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B postcolonial perspective
B Negotiation
B contact zone
B Joseph and Aseneth
B Hybridity
B Ambiguity
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