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| Title: In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts Type: Book Year: 1990 Abstract: "K. examines the "interpretive life" of certain aspects of the Joseph tradition (the Potiphar's wife episode, gossip about Joseph and Potiphar's wife in the Egyptian court, Joseph's beauty, Joseph's change of heart, Joseph's bones), the Lamech tradition (Genesis 4), Psalm 137, and a legal injunction, Lev 19:17. He analyzes the narrative expansions of these biblical traditions in a number of diverse sources, e.g., Philo and Josephus, Jewish pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Christian sources, the Quran, etc. His aim is to clarify the relationship of rabbinic exegesis to these other sources, in order to trace how certain rabbinic explanations came into being. K.'s Chapter 9 lays out "nine theses" about the workings of early biblical exegesis". - Gale A. Yee Keywords: Interpretation of the Bible in Ancient Judaism |