Author: Chesnutt, Randall D.
Title: From Death to Life : Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth
Description: Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, (1995). orig.boards. 23x14, 308 pp, Series: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement Series, 16.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Prolegomena: history of research; text, original language, character, provenance, date and genre, the present state of research; descriptive analyses: social tensions in the narrative of Aseneth's conversion; Formal and conceptual features of Aseneth's conversion; Comparative analyses: Jewish Proselytism; Initiation into groups within Judaism: Essenes, Therapeutae, Haburoth, Gnostics & Mercaban mystics; Mystery intiation; Conclusions.

Keywords: New Testament Exegesis, Bible Biblical, Criticism, Joseph Aseneth, Christian Theology, Christianity, Conversion, ,