Honey for aseneth: Interpreting a religious symbol

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

Volumn 8, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 97-110

  Hubbard, Moyer ^a  

^a BIOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950725725     PISSN: 09518207     EISSN: 17455286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095182079700001606     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. R. Chesnutt, From Death to Life: Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth [JSPSup, 16; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995], pp. 80-85
2. D. Sänger, 'Erwägungen zur historischen Einordnung und Datierung von "Joseph und Aseneth'", ZNW 76 [1985], pp. 86-106
3. M. Philonenko, Joseph et Aséneth: Introduction, texte critique, traduction et notes [SPB, 13; Leiden: Brill, 1968], pp. 99-109)
4. A Jewish-Egyptian origin is also considered a virtual certainty. In addition to the works cited above, see E.M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypses and the Shepherd of Hermes (JSPSup, 17; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 30-34
5. D. Sänger, Antikes Judentum und die Mysterien: religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Joseph und Aseneth (WUNT 2.5; Tübingen: Mohr, 1980)
6. H.C. Kee, 'The Socio-Cultural Setting of Joseph and Aseneth', JSNT 29 (1983), pp. 394-413
7. C. Burchard, 'The Importance of Joseph and Aseneth for the Study of the New Testament: A General Survey and a Fresh Look at the Lord's Supper', NTS 33 (1987), p. 115
8. Philonenko, Joseph et Aséneth, p. 96
9. Burchard, 'Importance', pp. 114-17
10. M. Mach, Entwicklungsstudien des jüdischen Engelglaubens in vorrabinischer Zeit (Tübingen: Mohr, 1992), p. 272
11. Cf. Chesnutt, Death to Life, p. 147 n. 62
12. E.P. Sanders, 'The Covenant as a Soteriological Category and the Nature of Salvation in Palestinian and Hellenistic Judaism', in Jews Greeks and Christians: Religious Cultures in Late Antiquity (Leiden: Brill, 1976), p. 23
13. On this language see K. Berger, 'Jüdisch-hellenistische Missionsliteratur und apokryphe Apostelakten', Kairos 17 (1975), pp. 232-48
14. D. Sänger, 'Bekehrung und Exodus: Zum jüdischen Traditionshintergrund von "Joseph und Aseneth"' ZNW 76 (1979), pp. 25-27
15. Chesnutt, Death to Life, pp. 145-49
16. K. Berger, Theologiegeschichte des Urchristentums (Tübingen: Francke, 1994), p. 269
17. So U. Mell, Neuschöpfung (BZNW, 56; Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1989), p. 234
18. Burchard, 'Importance'; J.D. M. Derrett, 'New Creation: Qumran, Paul, the Church, and Jesus', RevQ 29 (1985), p. 601
19. Neuschöpfung is the German equivalent: G. Schneider, 'Die Idee der Neuschöpfung beim Apostel Paulus und ihr religionsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund', TTZ 68 (1959), p. 261
20. U. Fischer, Eschatologie und Jenseitserwartung im hellenistischen Diasporajudentum (BZNW, 44; Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1978), pp. 107, 111
21. D. Sänger, 'Bekehrung', p. 27
22. K. Berger, 'Missionsliteratur', p. 233
23. U. Meli, Neuschöpfung, p. 244
24. Mach, Entwicklungsstudien, p. 269
25. and R. Kraft, The Apostolic Fathers: A New Translation and Commentary. III. Barnabas and the Didache (New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1965), pp. 39-56
26. M. Eliade, Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism (London: Harvill, 1961)
27. Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth (New York: Harper & Row, 1965)
28. L.S. La Fontaine, Initiation: Ritual Drama and Secret Knowledge across the World (New York: Penguin, 1985)
29. C.J. Bleeker (ed.), Initiation (Supplements to Numen, SHR, 10; Leiden: Brill, 1965)
30. U. Bianchi, 'Some Observations on the Typology of "Passage"' in idem (ed.), Transition Rites: Cosmic, Social, and Individual Order (Rome: 'L'Erma' di Bretschneider, 1986), pp. 45-61. The universality of this symbolism is frequently mentioned, but taken up specifically by M. Douglas in Natural Symbols (London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1970)
31. Details are provided by Van Gennep, Rites, pp. 29-38, 92-95
32. La Fontaine, Initiation, pp. 66-67, 88-91
33. V. Turner, The Forest of Symbols (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967), p. 52
34. 'Variations on a Theme of Liminality', in S.F. Moore and B.G. Meyerhoff (eds.), Secular Ritual (Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1977), p. 37
35. Eliade, Rites, p. 28
36. See R.C. Douglas, 'Liminality and Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth', JSP 3(1988), pp. 31-42
37. The Coptic text, along with the English translation presented here and text-critical notes can be found in W.E. Crum (ed.), Theological Texts from Coptic Papyri (Oxford, 1913), pp. 140-41