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Potiphar is the captain of the Egyptian king's guard who is said to have purchased Joseph as a slave and, impressed by his intelligence, makes him the master of his household. Potiphar's wife, who was known for her infidelities, took a liking to Joseph and attempted to seduce him.
Potiphar's wife is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. She was the wife of Potiphar , the captain of Pharaoh's guard in the time of Jacob and his twelve sons . According to the Book of Genesis , she falsely accused Joseph of attempted rape after he rejected her sexual advances, resulting in his imprisonment.
According to the Hebrew Bible, Potipherah (/ pɒˈtɪfərə /, Hebrew: פּוֹטִי פֶרַע Pōṭī feraʿ . ) was a priest of the ancient Egyptian town of On, [1] mentioned in the Genesis 41:45 and 41:50. He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife by Pharaoh, (41:45) and who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and ...
Yusuf and Zulaikha. Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to ...
Joseph (/ ˈdʒoʊzəf, - səf /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2][a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran. He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son). He is the founder of the Tribe of Joseph among the Israelites.
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (c. 1555) by Tintoretto. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is a c. 1555 oil on canvas painting by Jacopo Tintoretto, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. [1] The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife is from the Old Testament (Genesis 39:1–23).
The story of Astydamia follows a common folkloric structure, known primarily from the Biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, in which a wicked seductress fails to allure her object of desire and subsequently accuses him of sexual misconduct, whether attempt or assault; similar stories in Greek myth include Phaedra with Hippolytus, Cleoboea with Antheus, and Stheneboea with Bellerophon.
The myth is one of several examples of the 'Potiphar's wife' archetype found in Greek mythology in which a woman, usually an already married one, tries and fails to seduce a man and then attempts to accuse him of assault; the most famous example is that of Hippolytus and Phaedra, the son and wife of the Athenian hero Theseus respectively. [9]