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The story of Joseph
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ISBN: 0815652704 9780815652700 9780815633570 0815633572 Year: 2014 Publisher: Syracuse, New York

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Joseph
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ISBN: 0827612923 082761294X 9780827612921 9780827612945 9780827612501 0827612508 9780827612938 0827612931 9780827612945 Year: 2016 Publisher: Philadelphia

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The wiles of women/the wiles of men
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ISBN: 143840431X 0585046123 9780585046129 9780791426838 0791426831 9780791426845 079142684X 9781438404318 0791426831 079142684X Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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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.


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The story of Joseph =
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ISBN: 1280686383 9786613663320 9004212868 9789004212862 9781906876050 1906876053 Year: 2010 Publisher: Folkestone, UK

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Learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region for generations, Kyssa’i Yusuf ( The Story of Joseph ) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kol Gali (1183–1236) and is here rendered into English for the first time in its entirety by Fred Beake and Ravil Bukharaev. Supporting the translation, which is fully annotated, are forty specially commissioned illustrations by one of Russia’s leading contemporary artists Azat Minnekaev. The volume also includes a facsimile of one of the newly discovered handmade copies of the nineteenth century, together with a full introduction presenting the historical and literary context of the work. Kyssa’i Yusuf , comprising over a thousand stanzas, is an Islamic version of the well known biblical tale, and is presumed to have been a ‘popularized’version based on an earlier Islamic narrative – not unlike the late-twentieth century ‘interpretation’ found in the popular musical Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat . The translation will be of special interest to biblical scholars as well as students of Islamic literature and those pursuing inter-faith studies.


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The sacrificial laws of Leviticus and the Joseph story
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ISBN: 9781107189676 1107189675 9781316995396 9781316639221 1316639223 1108103154 1108102751 110810035X 1108103960 1108103553 1108105165 1316995399 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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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.


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Loving Yusuf
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ISBN: 1281959073 0226035883 9786611959074 9780226035888 9780226035864 0226035867 9780226035871 0226035875 0226035867 9780226035864 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf¸ Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns the advance of his master's wife who then falsely accuses him of rape, as her point of departure. She juxtaposes the Genesis tale to the rather different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt and explores how Thomas Mann's great retelling in Joseph and His Brothers reworks these versions. Through this inquiry she develops concepts for the analysis of texts that are both strange and overly familiar-culturally remote yet constantly retold. As she puts personal memories in dialogue with scholarly exegesis, Bal asks how all of these different versions complicate her own and others' experience of the story, and how the different truths of these texts in their respective traditions illuminate the process of canonization.


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Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition
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ISBN: 1474427081 1474413749 1474413730 9781474413732 9781474413749 9781474413725 1474413722 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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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.

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  • 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
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