Aseneth and the Honeycomb

Joseph and Aseneth is a fascinating writing, most likely composed in Egypt in the first century BCE. Often considered the world's first romance novel, it survives both in its original Jewish form, and in several later Christian reworkings. Aseneth and the Honeycomb makes three major contributions to Joseph and Aseneth studies: (1) it examines the details of Aseneth's encounter with the divine hone...