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| Keywords: Meister der Josephsfolge 002.jpg Asenath or Asenith is a figure in the Book of Genesis an Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph son of Jacob to be his wife She bore Joseph two sons Manasseh and Ephraim who became the patriarchs of the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim respectively Her story is elaborated in the apocryphal Joseph and Asenath There she is a virgin who rejects several worthy suitors in favour of Joseph but Joseph will not have a pagan for a wife She locks herself in a tower and rejects her idolatry in favour of Joseph's God Yahweh and receives a visit from an angel who accepts her conversion A ritual involving a honeycomb follows and Joseph now consents to marry her Joseph and Asenath color oak panel cm 153 Staatliche Museen Berlin http //www wga hu/frames-e html /html/m/master/zunk_fl/15_paint/3/13joseph html ca 1500 Creator Master of the Joseph Sequence PD-old-100 Master of the Joseph Sequence Joseph and Asenath Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources 15th-century oil on panel paintings in Germany Early Netherlandish paintings in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin Master Of The Joseph Sequence 1500 paintings 16th-century oil on panel paintings in Germany 16th-century paintings of Old Testament 1500s paintings in Berlin 16th-century religious paintings in Germany 1500s religious paintings | ||||
