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English
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll, Joseph and Aseneth (Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, 2013)
Translation of and annotated commentary on the Greek text of Joseph and Aseneth [academia.edu]
Mary Brodrick & P. L. Renouf, The Life and Confession of Asenath, the daughter of Pentephres of Heliopolis narrating how the all-beautiful Joseph took her to Wife (London: P. Wellby, 1900)
Available for free at archive.org from the link above.
E. W. Brooks, Joseph and Asenath: The Confession and Prayer of Asenath, Daughter of Pentephres the Priest (Translations of Early Documents; London: SPCK, 1918)
Available for free at archive.org from the link above.
Christoph Burchard, “Joseph and Aseneth: A New Translation and Introduction” in James H. Charleworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Vol. 2 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985), pp. 177-247
An important and much used resource, this is Burchard’s introduction to and translation of his own reconstruction of the longer Greek text.
D. Cook, Joseph and Aseneth, with an introduction by H. F. D. Sparks, in H. F. D. Sparks (ed.), The Apocryphal Old Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
Cook’s translation, reproduced here by kind permission of Oxford University Press, is of Philonenko’s shorter text (see above).
Bernard Pick “Joseph and Asenath”, Open Court 27 (1913), pp. 467-96
Available for free at archive.org from the link above.
French
M. Philonenko, Joseph et Aséneth: Introduction, Texte critique, Traduction, et Notes (Studia Post Biblica, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968)
German
Eckart Reinmuth (ed.), Joseph und Aseneth (see below): 56-140: German translation by Reinmuth (including notes) is side by side with Fink’s Greek text [Available online]
P. Riessler, Altjüdisches Schrifttum ausserhalb der Bibel 2. Auflage (Heidelberg, 1966), pp. 497-538
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Patricia Ahearne-Kroll, Aseneth of Egypt:The Composition of a Jewish Narrative (Early Judaism and Its Literature 53; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020)
Gideon Bohak, Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis (Early Judaism and Its Literature 10; Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1996)
Review by D. Noy, Journal of Jewish Studies 49 (1998), pp.149-150
Christoph Burchard, Untersuchungen zu Joseph und Aseneth: Uberlieferung- Ortsbestimmung (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 8: Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1965)
Review by Mathias Delcor, Revue de Qumran 5 (1965), pp. 590-6
Christoph Burchard, Gesammelte Studien zu Joseph und Aseneth: Berichtigt und ergänzt Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung von Carsten Burfeind (Studia in veteris testamenti pseudepigrapha 13; Leiden: Brill, 1996)
Christoph Burchard, Carsten Burfeind, & Uta Barbara Fink (eds.), Joseph und Aseneth (Leiden: Brill, 2003)
This book is the first critical edition of the ancient Jewish romance of Joseph and Aseneth with full apparatus from the entire manuscript tradition.
Randall D. Chesnutt, From Death to Life: Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, 16; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
Review by Gideon Bohak in Ioudaios Review 5.008 (May 1995), at ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/5.1995/chesnutt.bohak.008
Review by Edith M. Humphrey, Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), p. 354
Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, Aseneth’s Transformation (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 24; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018
Jill Hicks-Keeton, Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel’s Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Stefanie Holder (ed.), Joseph und Aseneth: Ein Roman über richtiges und falsches Handeln (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
E. M. Humphrey, Joseph and Aseneth (Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, 8; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000)
E. M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities: Transformation and Apocalyptic Identity in Joseph and Aseneth, 4 Ezra, the Apocalypse and the Shepherd of Hermas (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 17; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
Review by Stephen L. Cook in SBL Review of Biblical Literature January 1998 (also in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998), pp. 375-77)
Review by Judith M. Lieu, Journal of Theological Studies 48 (1997), pp.219-221
Review by H. O. Maier, Studies in Religion-Sciences Religieuses 27/1 (1998), p.79
Review by C. Osiek, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59 (1997), pp.158-159
Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen, Aseneth’s Transformation (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018)
Ross Shepard Kraemer, When Aseneth Met Joseph. A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and his Egyptian Wife Reconsidered (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Review by Hagith Sivan in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998-12-02, on-line at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/1998-12-02.html
Review by Gideon Bohak in Review of Biblical Literature 2000
Review by Randall Chesnutt in Review of Biblical Literature 2000
B. Diane Lipsett, Desiring Conversion: Hermas, Thecla, Aseneth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
John Poirier, Aseneth and the Honeycomb (Leuven: Peeters, 2024)
Eckart Reinmuth (ed.), Joseph und Aseneth (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009) [Entire book available online as a PDF]
D. Sänger, Antikes Judentum und die Mysterien. Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu “Joseph und Aseneth” (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/5; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1980)
Edgar W. Smith, Joseph and Asenath and Early Christian Literature (Claremont Grad. Sch. PhD diss., 1974)
Angela Standhartinger, Das Frauenbild im Judentum der hellenistischen Zeit. Ein Beitrag anhang von “Joseph und Aseneth” (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, XXVI; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995)
Review by D. Sänger in Theologische Literaturzeitung 121 (1996) 1149-1153
Review by Maria Trautmann in Biblische Zeitschrift 40 (1996), pp. 292-295