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1 Syllabus Joseph & Potiphars Wife: Bible to Midrash Last update HU Credits: 2 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: hebrew literature Academic year: 0 Semester: 1st Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Esther Chazon Coordinator Prof. Esther Chazon Coordinator Office Hours: Wed. 12:30-1:30 Teaching Staff: Prof Esther Chazon page 1 / 8

2 Course/Module description: The seminar will examine the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife and its role in shaping the characterization of Joseph in the literature of the Second Temple period and in rabbinic literature. The presentation, interpretation and aims of each work as well as the development of traditions and motifs will be discussed. Course/Module aims: To examine the presentation of the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife in Jewish literature of the Second Temple and post-70 CE eras in particular with respect to the aims of the different authors and their social-historical contexts. To study a representative and wide variety of Jewish works written during the Second Temple period and to trace the development of the various motifs, ideas, interpretations and adaptations of this story into rabbinic literature. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: 1. To attain a grasp of the wide body of Jewish literature written during the Second Temple period and appreciate its importance for understanding rabbinic literature. 2. To analyze the interpretations and adaptations of the biblical story in the works studied from the apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Jewish-Hellenistic and rabbinic literature. 3. To examine the shared interpretations and developments, on the one hand, and the unique presentations and aims of each work, on the other. Attendance requirements(%): 80 Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Course/Module Content: 1. מן המקרא ועד המדרש: מבוא לספרות היהודית ולפרשנות המקרא בימי הבית השני Kugel, James L., Traditions of the Bible (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1998), Feldman, Louis H., Kugel, James L., and Schiffman, Lawrence H., Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (Society, 2013), Volume 1 pages XVII- XVIII, אשל, אסתר, "קומראן וחקר הספרות החיצונית," בתוך: מגילות קומראן: מבואות ומחקרים, ערך מנחם קיסטר, ירושלים, יד בן-צבי, תשס"ט, כרך שני, עמודים , , 573, 2. שבח אבות עולם על פי בן-סירא page 2 / 8

3 ספר בן-סירא: המקור, קונקורדנציה וניתוח אוצר מילים, האקדמיה ללשון העברית, ירושלים תשל"ג, עמודים סגל, מ.צ., ספר בן-סירא השלם, ירושלים, תשי"ט, עמודים א-ז, קמה-קמו, שב-שמג, שנ-שנא. Benjamin G. Wright III, "Wisdom of Ben Sira," in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (ed. L. H. Feldman, J. L. Kugel, and L. H. Schiffman; 2013), Volume 3, pages , and צוואת מתתיהו ודמויות מופת על פי ספרי המקבים ספר מקבים א פרקים 1-2 (צוואת מתתיהו) וספר מקבים ד פרקים 18:1-19 1:1-2:22, כהנא, אברהם, הספרים החיצוניים כרך ב, ספר מקבים א פרקים 1-2 בעמודים צה-קט, וספר מקבים ד פרקים 18:1-19 1:1-2:22, בעמודים רס-רסג, רפה-רפו. רפפורט, אוריאל, ספר מקבים א, ירושלים תשס"ד, עמודים , 26-35, Kugel, James L., In Potiphar's House (San Francisco, 1990), Hieke, Thomas, "The Role of 'Scripture' in the Last Words of Mattathias (1Macc 2:49-40)," in The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (Sup. Journal for the Study of Judaism 118; ed. Gיza G. Xeravits and Jףzsef Zsengeller; Leiden: 2007), Collins, John J., "Fourth Maccabees," in Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (2nd edition; Grand Rapids, 2000), desilva, David A., "4 Maccabees: 'Noble is the Contest,'" in Introducing the Apocrypha (Grand Rapids, 2002), [van Henten, Jan Willem, The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People: A רשות] Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees (SupJSJ 57; Leiden: 1997), and 4. סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי בספר היובלים ספר היובלים פרקים א-ב (ראשית הספר ואופיו) פרק לד: ופרק לט (יוסף ואשת פוטיפר) ורמן, כנה, ספר היובלים: מבוא, תרגום ופירוש, ירושלים, תשע"ה, עמודים,78-82, , 92, , קימרון, אלישע, מגילות מדבר יהודה החיבורים העבריים, כרך שני, ירושלים,תשע"ג, עמודים, , VanderKam, J. and Milik, J.T., "Jubilees," in Qumran Cave 4 VIII Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 13; ed. H. Attridge et al.; Oxford: 1994), and קיסטר, מנחם, "על שני מטבעות לשון בספר היובלים," תרביץ 70 (תשס"א) סיגל, מיכאל, ספר היובלים- שכתוב, עריכה, אמונות ודעות, תשס"ח, , 21-23, 1-17, VanderKam, J. C., "The Origins and Purposes of the Book of Jubilees," in Studies in the Book of Jubilees (ed. M. Albani, J. Frey, A. Lange; TSAJ 65; Tbingen, 1997), סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי צוואת יוסף וצוואת ראובן כהנא, הספרים החיצונים כרך א', "צואות השפטים" "צואת ראובן" ו"צואת יוסף" בעמודים קנא-קנו, רג-רי. Collins, John J., "The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs," in Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, (ed. Michael E. Stone, 1984) Kugel, James L., "The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs," in Outside the Bible, Volume 2, pages , [ , ], , [1853]. Pervo, Richard I., "The Testament of Joseph and Greek Romance," in Studies on the page 3 / 8

4 Testament of Joseph (ed. George Nickelsburg, 1975), [Braun, Martin, History and Romance in Graeco-Oriental Literature (Oxford: [רשות Blackwell, 1938), pages [Hollander, H. H. and de Jonge, D., "The Testament of Joseph," in The Testaments of [רשות עזר כלי ), (Leiden: the Twelve Patriarchs A Commentary 6. יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי פילון פילון האלכסנדרוני, כתבים כרך שני (ערכה סוזן דניאל-נטף, ירושלים תשנ"א), על יוסף, עמודים (מבוא) + עמודים (שהם סעיפים ,הסיפור + הפירושו האלגורי) פילון האלכסנדרוני, כתבים כרך רביעי (ערך יהושע עמיר), אלגוריית החוקים: ספר שלישי, עמודים 26-9 (מבוא) (שהם סעיפים , פירוש אלגורי של אשת פוטיפר ויוסף) Runia, David, "The Writings of Philo," in Outside the Bible, pages Niehoff, Maren, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 54-60, 66-68, Harrington, Daniel J., "Joseph in the Testament of Joseph, Pseudo-Philo, and Philo," in Studies on the Testament of Joseph (ed. George Nickelsburg, 1975), , יוסף ואסנת: בבואה של סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר? ספר יוסף ואסנת (במיוחד פרקים ז-י"ז) בתוך מהדורת: ד' פלוסר וג' צורן, יוסף ואסנת-רומן יהודי- הלניסטית," דפים למחקר בספרות ב (1985) Burchard, C., "Joseph and Asenath," in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (ed. James H. Charlesworth; New York: 1985) Volume 2, pages and Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem, pages and Chestnutt, Randall D., "The Social Setting and Purpose of Joseph and Asenath," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 2 (1988) Bohak, Gideon, Asenaths Honeycomb and Onias Temple: The Key to Joseph and Asenath, Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division A, 1994, pages OR Bohak, "Chapter 6: Rereading Joseph and Asenath," in Joseph and Asenath and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis (SBLEJL 10, Atlanta, 1996), Kraemer, Ross S., When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered (Oxford: 1998), 19-25, 42-45, , 242, Pervo, Richard I., "Aseneth and Her Sisters: Women in Jewish Narrative and in the Greek Novels," in "'Women Like This' New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World (ed. A.-J. Levine, Atlanta, 1991), סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי יוספוס יוסף בן מתתיהו [פלביוס יוספוס]: קדמוניות היהודים, תרגם א. שליט, כרך ראשון: עמודים (שהם קדמוניות, ספר שני, סעיפים 39-60). Feldman, Louis, "Josephus and His Writings" in Outside the Bible, pages Feldman, L. H., Josephus' Interpretation of the Bible, (Berkeley, 1998), , Halpern Amaru, Betsy, "Portraits of Biblical Women in Josephus' Antiquities," Journal for the Study of Judaism 39 (1988): , , סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר במדרשי חז"ל מדרש בראשית רבא, מהדורת תיאודור-אלבק, ירושלים, תשכ"ה, כרך שני: פרשה פז ופרשה פח סימן page 4 / 8

5 א (עמודים ) ופרשה צ סימן ג (עמ' ). תלמוד בבלי, מסכת סוטה דף לו עמוד ב. לוינסון, יהושע, הסיפור שלא סופר: אמנות הסיפור המקראי המורחב במדרשי חז"ל, ירושלים, תשס"ה, עמודים , , ,6-10 Levinson, Joshua, "An-other Woman: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Staging the Body Politic," Jewish Quarterly Review 87 (1997): Niehoff, Figure of Joseph, (Appendix: The Figure of Joseph in the Targums). סוף דבר: סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר בהתפתחותה מן המקרא ועד המדרש. 10 Kugel, James L., In Potiphar's House (San Francisco, 1990), 66-93, [94-124], and Kugel, Traditions of the Bible, Required Reading: 1. מן המקרא ועד המדרש: מבוא לספרות היהודית ולפרשנות המקרא בימי הבית השני Kugel, James L., Traditions of the Bible (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1998), Feldman, Louis H., Kugel, James L., and Schiffman, Lawrence H., Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (Society, 2013), Volume 1 pages XVII- XVIII, אשל, אסתר, "קומראן וחקר הספרות החיצונית," בתוך: מגילות קומראן: מבואות ומחקרים, ערך מנחם קיסטר, ירושלים, יד בן-צבי, תשס"ט, כרך שני, עמודים , , 573, 2. שבח אבות עולם על פי בן-סירא ספר בן-סירא: המקור, קונקורדנציה וניתוח אוצר מילים, האקדמיה ללשון העברית, ירושלים תשל"ג, עמודים סגל, מ.צ., ספר בן-סירא השלם, ירושלים, תשי"ט, עמודים א-ז, קמה-קמו, שב-שמג, שנ-שנא. Benjamin G. Wright III, "Wisdom of Ben Sira," in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (ed. L. H. Feldman, J. L. Kugel, and L. H. Schiffman; 2013), Volume 3, pages , and צוואת מתתיהו ודמויות מופת על פי ספרי המקבים ספר מקבים א פרקים 1-2 (צוואת מתתיהו) וספר מקבים ד פרקים 18:1-19 1:1-2:22, כהנא, אברהם, הספרים החיצוניים כרך ב, ספר מקבים א פרקים 1-2 בעמודים צה-קט, וספר מקבים ד פרקים 18:1-19 1:1-2:22, בעמודים רס-רסג, רפה-רפו. רפפורט, אוריאל, ספר מקבים א, ירושלים תשס"ד, עמודים , 26-35, Kugel, James L., In Potiphar's House (San Francisco, 1990), Hieke, Thomas, "The Role of 'Scripture' in the Last Words of Mattathias (1Macc 2:49-40)," in The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology (Sup. Journal for the Study of Judaism 118; ed. Gיza G. Xeravits and Jףzsef Zsengeller; Leiden: 2007), Collins, John J., "Fourth Maccabees," in Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (2nd edition; Grand Rapids, 2000), desilva, David A., "4 Maccabees: 'Noble is the Contest,'" in Introducing the page 5 / 8

6 Apocrypha (Grand Rapids, 2002), [van Henten, Jan Willem, The Maccabean Martyrs as Saviours of the Jewish People: A רשות] Study of 2 and 4 Maccabees (SupJSJ 57; Leiden: 1997), and 4. סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי בספר היובלים ספר היובלים פרקים א-ב (ראשית הספר ואופיו) פרק לד: ופרק לט (יוסף ואשת פוטיפר) ורמן, כנה, ספר היובלים: מבוא, תרגום ופירוש, ירושלים, תשע"ה, עמודים,78-82, , 92, , קימרון, אלישע, מגילות מדבר יהודה החיבורים העבריים, כרך שני, ירושלים,תשע"ג, עמודים, , VanderKam, J. and Milik, J.T., "Jubilees," in Qumran Cave 4 VIII Parabiblical Texts, Part 1 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 13; ed. H. Attridge et al.; Oxford: 1994), and קיסטר, מנחם, "על שני מטבעות לשון בספר היובלים," תרביץ 70 (תשס"א) סיגל, מיכאל, ספר היובלים- שכתוב, עריכה, אמונות ודעות, תשס"ח, , 21-23, 1-17, VanderKam, J. C., "The Origins and Purposes of the Book of Jubilees," in Studies in the Book of Jubilees (ed. M. Albani, J. Frey, A. Lange; TSAJ 65; Tbingen, 1997), סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי צוואת יוסף וצוואת ראובן כהנא, הספרים החיצונים כרך א', "צואות השפטים" "צואת ראובן" ו"צואת יוסף" בעמודים קנא-קנו, רג-רי. Collins, John J., "The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs," in Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, (ed. Michael E. Stone, 1984) Kugel, James L., "The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs," in Outside the Bible, Volume 2, pages , [ , ], , [1853]. Pervo, Richard I., "The Testament of Joseph and Greek Romance," in Studies on the Testament of Joseph (ed. George Nickelsburg, 1975), [Braun, Martin, History and Romance in Graeco-Oriental Literature (Oxford: [רשות Blackwell, 1938), pages [Hollander, H. H. and de Jonge, D., "The Testament of Joseph," in The Testaments of [רשות עזר כלי ), (Leiden: the Twelve Patriarchs A Commentary 6. יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי פילון פילון האלכסנדרוני, כתבים כרך שני (ערכה סוזן דניאל-נטף, ירושלים תשנ"א), על יוסף, עמודים (מבוא) + עמודים (שהם סעיפים ,הסיפור + הפירושו האלגורי) פילון האלכסנדרוני, כתבים כרך רביעי (ערך יהושע עמיר), אלגוריית החוקים: ספר שלישי, עמודים 26-9 (מבוא) (שהם סעיפים , פירוש אלגורי של אשת פוטיפר ויוסף) Runia, David, "The Writings of Philo," in Outside the Bible, pages Niehoff, Maren, The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 54-60, 66-68, Harrington, Daniel J., "Joseph in the Testament of Joseph, Pseudo-Philo, and Philo," in Studies on the Testament of Joseph (ed. George Nickelsburg, 1975), , יוסף ואסנת: בבואה של סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר? ספר יוסף ואסנת (במיוחד פרקים ז-י"ז) בתוך מהדורת: ד' פלוסר וג' צורן, יוסף ואסנת-רומן יהודי- הלניסטית," דפים למחקר בספרות ב (1985) Burchard, C., "Joseph and Asenath," in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (ed. page 6 / 8

7 James H. Charlesworth; New York: 1985) Volume 2, pages and Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem, pages and Chestnutt, Randall D., "The Social Setting and Purpose of Joseph and Asenath," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 2 (1988) Bohak, Gideon, Asenaths Honeycomb and Onias Temple: The Key to Joseph and Asenath, Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division A, 1994, pages OR Bohak, "Chapter 6: Rereading Joseph and Asenath," in Joseph and Asenath and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis (SBLEJL 10, Atlanta, 1996), Kraemer, Ross S., When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered (Oxford: 1998), 19-25, 42-45, , 242, Pervo, Richard I., "Aseneth and Her Sisters: Women in Jewish Narrative and in the Greek Novels," in "'Women Like This' New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World (ed. A.-J. Levine, Atlanta, 1991), סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר על פי יוספוס יוסף בן מתתיהו [פלביוס יוספוס]: קדמוניות היהודים, תרגם א. שליט, כרך ראשון: עמודים (שהם קדמוניות, ספר שני, סעיפים 39-60). Feldman, Louis, "Josephus and His Writings" in Outside the Bible, pages Feldman, Louis H., Josephus' Interpretation of the Bible, (Berkeley, 1998), and Halpern Amaru, Betsy, "Portraits of Biblical Women in Josephus' Antiquities," Journal for the Study of Judaism 39 (1988): , , סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר במדרשי חז"ל מדרש בראשית רבא, מהדורת תיאודור-אלבק, ירושלים, תשכ"ה, כרך שני: פרשה פז ופרשה פח סימן א (עמודים ) ופרשה צ סימן ג (עמ' ). תלמוד בבלי, מסכת סוטה דף לו עמוד ב. לוינסון, יהושע, הסיפור שלא סופר: אמנות הסיפור המקראי המורחב במדרשי חז"ל, ירושלים, תשס"ה, עמודים , , ,6-10 Levinson, Joshua, "An-other Woman: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Staging the Body Politic," Jewish Quarterly Review 87 (1997): Niehoff, Figure of Joseph, (Appendix: The Figure of Joseph in the Targums). סוף דבר: סיפור יוסף ואשת פוטיפר בהתפתחותה מן המקרא ועד המדרש. 10 Kugel, James L., In Potiphar's House (San Francisco, 1990), 66-93, [94-124], and Kugel, Traditions of the Bible, Additional Reading Material: Course/Module evaluation: page 7 / 8

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