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The figure of Joseph in post-Biblical Jewish literature

This book is a comparative study of early Jewish interpretations of the biblical outline of Joseph's character. It focuses on the treatises of Philo, who idealises the figure as a Hellenistic politician, on Josephus's autobiographical account and the Midrash Genesis Rabbah, which uses the figure mostly for religious instruction.
Print Book, English, 1992
E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1992