Potiphar’s wife sets up her friends to learn about Joseph’s beauty for themselves, the hard way, in a story that appears in both rabbinic midrash and the Quran. Sefer HaYashar, a 16th century midrashic work, dramatizes this story in a way sympathetic to her character, even giving her the name Zuleikha, borrowed from Islamic sources.
Dr. Rabbi
Edwin C. Goldberg
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“Now Joseph was well-built and handsome”—Genesis 39:7
Prof. Rabbi
Rachel Adelman
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The history and geography of the Judahite clan of Shelah as portrayed in the Bible and in the extra-biblical Sources.
Prof.
Aaron Demsky
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