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In Jubilees, Joseph marries the daughter of his old master Potiphar, who is also the priest of Heliopolis. Joseph and Aseneth similarly expands on the details in Genesis, but the priest is a separate man named Pentephres, not Potiphar.
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Jubilees 40:10
Pseudepigrapha
9 The land of Egypt lived in harmony before the pharaoh because of Joseph for the Lord was with him. He gave him a favorable and kind reception for all his family before all who knew him and who heard reports about him. The pharaoh’s rule was just, and there was no satan or any evil one. 10 The king named Joseph Sefantifanes and gave Joseph as a wife the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis — the chief cook. 11 On the day when Joseph took up his position with the pharaoh he was 30 years of age when he took up his position with the pharaoh.
Joseph and Aseneth 1:5
Pseudepigrapha
4 Now there was in that city a man, a satrap of Pharaoh; and this man was the chief of all Pharaoh’s satraps and lords. 5 And he was very rich, and wise, and generous, and he was Pharaoh’s counsellor, and his name was Pentephres; and he was the priest of Heliopolis. 6 And Pentephres had a virgin daughter of about eighteen years of age, tall and beautiful and graceful, more beautiful than any other virgin in the land.
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Notes and References
... Jubilees 40.10 explicitly equates Joseph’s master, Potiphar (Hebrew: Potiphar), with Aseneth’s father (Hebrew: Potiphera) so that Aseneth becomes Potiphar’s daughter: ‘And [Pharaoh] gave the daughter of Potiphar, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis, the chief of the guard, to Joseph (as) a wife.’ This claim is, in fact, in direct opposition to our Aseneth stories, which assume that her father, Pentephres, and Joseph’s former master are two different people. ...
Kraemer, Ross Shepard
When Aseneth Met Joseph: A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered
(p. 229) Oxford University Press, 1998
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