“Much More Ours Than Yours”: The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early ChurchM.A. thesisSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/VSX9J3QT/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.John L.Fortner“Much More Ours Than Yours”: The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early Churchhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/VSX9J3QThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/VSX9J3QThttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/VSX9J3QTMiami University2004M.A. thesisThis paper investigates the figure of Joseph the patriarch in early Christian interpretation, demonstrating the importance of such figures in articulating a Christian reading of the history of Israel, and the importance of this reading in the identity formation of early Christianity. The paper also illumines the debt of this Christian reading of Israel’s history to the work of Hellenistic Judaism. The figure of Joseph the patriarch is traced through early Christian interpretation, primarily from the Eastern Church tradition up to the 4th century C.E. The key methodological approach is an analysis of how the early church employed typological, allegorical, and moral exegesis in its construction of Joseph as a “Christian saint of the Old Testament.” A figure who, to borrow Justin Martyr’s phrase, became in the Christian identity “much more ours than yours.”
Fortner, John L. “Much More Ours Than Yours”: The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early Church. M.A. Thesis. Miami University, 2004.
John L. Fortner, “Much More Ours Than Yours: The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early Church, M.A. Thesis (Miami University, 2004).AphrahatEphremGenesisIV CEJosephOld Testamentexegesis