Asenath

Asenath (often: Asenath or Aseneth ) was according to the Old Testament, an Egyptian, the wife of Joseph.

Asenath is in the Bible only in Gen 41,45 EU; 41,50 and 46,20 EU EUgenannt.

" The Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zafenat - paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter Potipherah priest of On, as his wife. So Joseph Lord was about Egypt. "

Asenath was born into a wealthy Egyptian family. Her father, Potifera ( " the given of Ra" ), which is not to be confused with Potiphar was priest of On, a cult center for the sun god Re. Asenath Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh to wife after Joseph had predicted a seven- year-long famine. She gave birth to Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, the progenitor of two tribes of Israel should be (Gen 41,50 EU).

Post-biblical traditions

In the story Joseph and Asenath, a pseuepigraphischen Jewish Scriptures from the first century AD, the life of Asenath is portrayed in the form of a love and conversion narrative.

The later rabbinic tradition makes Asenath the daughter Dinah and Shechem, which was only adopted by Potifera. Thus, the exegetical problem is solved, that Joseph was married to a non-Jew, even the daughter of a pagan priest.

Films

In The Bible - Joseph of 1995 Asenath was presented by the Italian Valeria Cavalli. In Joseph and his brothers in 1960, this did Vira Silenti.