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Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655. 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 ...
She believes the story is a criticism of Jewish assimilation since foreigners like Potiphar and his wife would seduce Jews to sin. [4] The medieval Sefer HaYashar, a commentary on the Torah, gives Potiphar's wife's name as Zuleikha, as do many Islamic traditions - thus the Persian poem called Yusuf and Zulaikha from Jami's Haft Awrang "Seven ...
Asenath (/ ˈæsɪnæθ /, Hebrew: אָסְנַת, Modern: ʾŎsnát, Tiberian: ʾĀsnaṯ; [3] Koine Greek: Ἀσενέθ, Asenéth) is a minor figure in the Book of Genesis. Asenath was a high-born, aristocratic Egyptian woman. [4] She was the wife of Joseph and the mother of his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. There are two Rabbinic approaches ...
In Genesis 39, Vayeshev, Joseph was sold to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard. Later, Joseph became Potiphar's servant, and subsequently his household's superintendent. Here, Potiphar's wife (later called Zulaykha) tried to seduce Joseph, which he refused. Angered by his running away from her, she made a false accusation of rape so he ...
The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis: The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Translation, pages 254–80, 410. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1989. Sharon Pace Jeansonne. "Tamar: The Woman Who Demanded Justice" and "Potiphar's Wife: The Stereotyped Temptress." In The Women of Genesis: From Sarah to Potiphar's Wife, pages 98–113.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is a constituent of the apocryphal scriptures connected with the Bible. It is believed to be a pseudepigraphical work of the dying commands of the twelve sons of Jacob. It is part of the Oskan Armenian Orthodox Bible of 1666. Fragments of similar writings were found at Qumran, but opinions are divided as ...
Vayeshev (וישב) Genesis 37:1–40:23. The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 24 Iyar, 5784— June 1, 2024. “But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him . . . .’”. (Genesis 39:21) Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, and this is his family’s story. When Joseph was 17, he fed the flock with his ...
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 ...