Joseph and Asenath: the Story of a Right

Abstract

The interest in the vitality of the Jewish religion between the 2nd Century b. C. up to the 1srt Century a. C. is expressed in the increase that studies on Jewish and Judaeo-Christian apocryphal /pseudoepigraphic literature have experienced in the last quarter of the 20th Century. This article tries to analyze one of the most peculiar works of this period, the novel “José and Asenet” in which parting from the reinterpretation of the biblical text, we try to show a way of living the Jewish religion in a minority context.