Asenath - Rabbinical Literature

Rabbinical Literature

The Midrash Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer records a view that Asenath was actually the daughter of Joseph's sister Dinah, conceived in her rape by Shechem. Some of the circumstantial textual evidence supporting this view is laid out in an article by John Pratt.

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