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Mummies --- Joseph, --- Yuya. --- Egypt --- History

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At the heart of this volume is the translation of a fourteenth-century Turkish version of the Joseph story, better known to Western readers from the version in Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible. Hickman provides us with a new lens: we see the drama of the Old Testament prophet Joseph, son of Jacob, through Muslim eyes. The poem's author, Sheyyad Hamza, lived in Anatolia during the early days of the Ottoman Empire. Hamza's composition is rooted in the recondite and little-studied tradition of oral performance-a unique corner of Turkish verbal arts, situated between minstrelsy and the "divan" tradition-combining the roles of preacher and storyteller. A cultural document as well as a literary text that reflects the prevailing values of the time, Hamza's play reveals a picture of Ottoman sensibility, both aesthetic and religious, at the level of popular culture in premodern Turkey. To supplement and contextualize the story, Hickman includes an introduction, a historical-literary afterword, and notes to the translation, all ably assisting an unfamiliar reader's entry into this world.

Joseph --- Hovsēpʻ Geghetsʻik --- Iosif Prekrasnyĭ --- Iosif --- I︠U︡sup --- Joesoep --- Joseph, --- Jusuf, --- Jusuf --- Kandjeng Nabi Jusuf --- Kanjeng Nabi Yusuf --- Nabbi Joesoep --- Nabbi Jusup --- Nabbi Yussup --- Nabi Jusuf --- Nabi Yusuf --- Yehosef --- Yosef --- Yūsuf al-Ṣiddiq --- Yusuf, --- Yusuf --- יוסף --- יוסף בן יעקב אבינו --- יוסף, --- يوسف الصديق --- Yuya

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Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif--in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her--in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore.

Middle Eastern literature --- Legends --- Jewish legends --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- Relation to the Old Testament. --- History and criticism. --- Potiphar's wife --- Joseph --- Hovsēpʻ Geghetsʻik --- Iosif Prekrasnyĭ --- Iosif --- I︠U︡sup --- Joesoep --- Joseph, --- Jusuf, --- Jusuf --- Kandjeng Nabi Jusuf --- Kanjeng Nabi Yusuf --- Nabbi Joesoep --- Nabbi Jusup --- Nabbi Yussup --- Nabi Jusuf --- Nabi Yusuf --- Yehosef --- Yosef --- Yūsuf al-Ṣiddiq --- Yusuf, --- Yusuf --- יוסף --- יוסף בן יעקב אבינו --- יוסף, --- يوسف الصديق --- Yuya

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In this study, Calum Carmichael offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10. These sacrificial laws, he argues, respond to the many problems in the first Israelite family. Understanding how ancient lawgivers thought about Joseph's and his brothers' troubling behavior leads to a greater appreciation of this complicated tale. The study of the laws in Leviticus 1-10 in relation to the Joseph story provides evidence that all biblical laws, over 400, constitute commentary on issues in the biblical narratives. They do not, as commonly thought, directly reflect the societal concerns in ancient Israelite times. Through close reading and analysis, Carmichael reveals how biblical narrators and lawgivers found distinctive and subtle ways of evaluating a single development in a narrative from multiple perspectives. Thus, the sacrificial laws addressing idolatry, keeping silent about a known offense, confessing wrongdoing, and seeking forgiveness become readily understandable when reviewed as responses to the events in the Joseph story.

Sacrifice --- 222.3 --- 222.3 Exodus. Leviticus. Numeri --- 222.3 L'Exode. Le Lévitique. Les Nombres --- Exodus. Leviticus. Numeri --- L'Exode. Le Lévitique. Les Nombres --- Biblical teaching --- Joseph --- Hovsēpʻ Geghetsʻik --- Iosif Prekrasnyĭ --- Iosif --- I︠U︡sup --- Joesoep --- Joseph, --- Jusuf, --- Jusuf --- Kandjeng Nabi Jusuf --- Kanjeng Nabi Yusuf --- Nabbi Joesoep --- Nabbi Jusup --- Nabbi Yussup --- Nabi Jusuf --- Nabi Yusuf --- Yehosef --- Yosef --- Yūsuf al-Ṣiddiq --- Yusuf, --- Yusuf --- יוסף --- יוסף בן יעקב אבינו --- יוסף, --- يوسف الصديق --- Yuya --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblical teaching.

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The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative tradition.

According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light - in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. Aristotle coined the term 'anagnôrisis' for the concept. In this book Philip F. Kennedy shows how 'recognition' is key to an understanding of how one reads values and meaning into, or out of, a story. He analyses texts and motifs fundamental to the Arabic literary tradition in five case studies: the Qur'an; the biography of Muhammad; Joseph in classical and medieval re-tellings; the 'deliverance from adversity' genre and picaresque narratives.

• Offers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced
• Provides a comparative perspective, appealing to students of narrative literature across linguistic, regional and cultural traditions
• Highlights the importance of intertextuality, showing the various ways in which literature and other genres of writing must be read together as manifestations of one complex cultural narrative
• Demonstrates the fruitfulness of interdisciplinarity in literary studies

Arabic literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Recognition in literature. --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- Joseph --- Hovsēpʻ Geghetsʻik --- Iosif Prekrasnyĭ --- Iosif --- I︠U︡sup --- Joesoep --- Joseph, --- Jusuf, --- Jusuf --- Kandjeng Nabi Jusuf --- Kanjeng Nabi Yusuf --- Nabbi Joesoep --- Nabbi Jusup --- Nabbi Yussup --- Nabi Jusuf --- Nabi Yusuf --- Yehosef --- Yosef --- Yūsuf al-Ṣiddiq --- Yusuf, --- Yusuf --- יוסף --- יוסף בן יעקב אבינו --- יוסף, --- يوسف الصديق --- Yuya --- In the Qurʼan. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Arabic literature. --- Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the Qurʼan. --- Anagnorisis. --- Literatur. --- Erkenntnis