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Patricia Ahearne-Kroll, “The Portrayal of Aseneth in Joseph and Aseneth: Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity and the Limitations of Ancient Narratives”, in Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul A. Holloway, and James A. Kelhoffer (eds.), Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010), 39-58 [reproduced on academia.edu]

V. Aptowitzer, “Asenath, the Wife of Joseph: A Haggadic Literary-Historical Study” in Hebrew Union College Annual i (1924), pp. 239-306

R. T. Beckwith, “The Solar Calendar of Joseph and Asenath: A Suggestion,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 15 (1984), pp. 90-111

René Bloch, “Take Your Time: Conversion, Confidence and Tranquility in Joseph and Aseneth”, in René Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 206; Leiden: Brill, 2022), 200-20

Gideon Bohak, “Asenath’s Honeycomb and Onias’ Temple: The Key to Joseph and Asenath“, in David Assaf (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies. Division A: The Bible and its World (Jerusalem: The Magnes Press), pp. 163-170

Gideon Bohak, “From fiction to history: Contextualizing Joseph and Aseneth” in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers (Society of Biblical Literature Seminar paper series 35; Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 273-284

Gideon Bohak, Review of Randall C. Chesnutt, From Death to Life in Ioudaios Review 5.008 (May 1995), at ftp://ftp.lehigh.edu/pub/listserv/ioudaios-review/5.1995/chesnutt.bohak.008

Gideon Bohak, Review of Ross Kraemer, When Aseneth Met Joseph, Review of Biblical Literature 2000, on-line at http://www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/0195114752.html

János Bolyki, “Egypt as the Setting for Joseph and Aseneth: Accidental or Deliberate?” in The Wisdom of Egypt: Jewish, Early Christian, and Gnostic Essays in Honour of Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 59; Leiden: Brill, 2005), 81-96

Nina Braginskaya, “Joseph and Aseneth in Greek Literary History: The Case of the ‘First Novel’” in The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections (2012): 79-105 [online at ResearchGate]

Nina Braginskaya, “Joseph and Aseneth and the Book of Esther” in Indo-European linguistics and classical philology 28 (2024):160-189

George Brooke, “Men and Women as Angels in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14.2 (2005): 159-177

Christoph Burchard, Der dreizehnte Zeuge: Traditions-und kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Lukas’ Darstellung der Früzeit des Paulus (= Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 103; Göttingen, 1970), pp. 59-86.

Christoph Burchard, “Zum Text von Joseph und Aseneth” in Journal for the Study of Judaism, i (1970), pp. 3-34

Christoph Burchard, “Joseph et Aséneth: Questions actuelles” in La littérature juive entre Tenach et Mischna: Quelques problèmes (ed. W. C. Van Uninik, Rech. Bib. 9; Leiden, 1974), pp. 77-100

Christoph Burchard (ed.) “Joseph und Aseneth, serbisch-kirchenslawisch. Text und Varianten” (Dielheimer Blätter zum Alten Testament und seiner Rezeption in der Alten Kirche; Beiheft 2; Dielheim: H.Schult u.B.Diebner,Selbstver, 1980) (also in 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), pp. 53-91)

Christoph Burchard, “Joseph und Aseneth” in Werner Georg Kümmel (ed.), Unterweisung in erzählender Form (Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit 2; Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1983), pp. 577-735

Christoph Burchard, “Der jüdische Aseneth-roman und seine Nachwirkung. Von Egeria zu Anna Katharina Emmerick oder von Moses aus Aggel zu Karl Kerényi”, ANRW II.20.1 (1987), pp. 543-667

Christoph Burchard, “The present state of research on Joseph and Aseneth”, in J. Neusner, P. Borgen, E. S. Frerichs and R. Horsley (eds.), New Perspectives on Judaism, Vol. 2: Religion, Literature, and Society in Ancient Israel, Formative Christianity and Judaism: Ancient Israel and Christianity (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987), pp. 31-52 (also in 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), pp. 297-320)

Christoph Burchard, “The Importance of Joseph and Aseneth for the Study of the New Testament: A general survey and a fresh look at the Lord’s supper”, New Testament Studies 33 (1987), pp. 102-34 (also in 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), pp. 263-95

Christoph Burchard, “More about the Armenian text of Joseph and Aseneth“, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 5 (1990-1991), pp. 65-80

Christoph Burchard, “Neues von Joseph und Aseneth auf armenisch” in 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), pp. 139-59

Christoph Burchard, “Zur armenischen Übersetzung von Joseph und Aseneth”, in 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), pp. 103-137

Christoph Burchard, “Joseph und Aseneth 25-29 armenisch”, in 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), pp. 93 – 102

Christoph Burchard, “Joseph und Aseneth neugriechisch”, New Testament Studies 24 (1977), pp. 68-84 (also in 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), pp. 35-51

Christoph Burchard & Carsten Burfeind, “Bibliographie zu Joseph und Aseneth” in 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), pp. 437-59

Christoph Burchard & Carsten Burfeind, “Nachlese zur Überlieferungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte von Joseph und Aseneth” in M. Baumbach, H. Köhler, M.A. Ritter (eds.), Mousopolos Stephanos. Festschrift für Herwig Görgemanns (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998), pp. 474-497 (features “Nachträge zur Bibliographie”, an update of the bibliography given in the previous note)

Christoph Burchard, “The text of Joseph and Aseneth Reconsidered”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14.2 (2005): 83-96

Randall D. Chesnutt, “The Social Setting and Purpose of Joseph and Aseneth,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 2 (1988), pp. 21-48

Randall D. Chesnutt, “Bread of Life in Joseph and Aseneth and in John 6,” in J. E. Priest (ed.), Johannine Studies in Honor of Frank Pack (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University Press, 1989), pp. 1-16

Randall D. Chesnutt, “Joseph and Aseneth,” in D. N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.; New York: Doubleday, 1992); Vol. 3, pp. 969-971

Randall D. Chesnutt, “From text to context: The social matrix of Joseph and Aseneth” in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers (Society of Biblical Literature Seminar paper series 35; Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 285 – 302

Randall D. Chesnutt, Review of Ross Kraemer, When Aseneth Met Joseph, Review of Biblical Literature 2000, on-line at http://www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/0195114752.html

Randall D. Chesnutt, “Perceptions of Oil in Early Judaism and the Meal Formula in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14.2 (2005): 113-132

Randall D. Chesnutt, “Joseph and Aseneth: Food as an Identity Marker”, in A.-J. Levine, D. A. Allision, and J. D. Crossan (eds.), The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton Readings in Religions; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 357-65

John J. Collins, “A symbol of otherness: circumcision and salvation in the first century” [discussion of Sib. Or., Ep. Arist., Philo, and Joseph and Aseneth] in: Jacob Neusner & Ernest S. Frerichs, (eds.), “To see ourselves as others see us”: Christians, Jews, “Others” in Late Antiquity (Scholars Press Studies in the Humanities Series; Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985), pp. 163-186

John J. Collins, “Joseph and Aseneth: Jewish or Christian?”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14/2 (2005): 97-112

Stephen L. Cook, Review of E. M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, January 1998, at http://www.bookreviews.org/Reviews/1850755353.html (also in Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998), pp. 375-77)  

Mathias Delcor, “Un roman d’amour d’origine théraputeute: le livre de Joseph et Asénath,” Bulletin de Litt. Ecclés 63 (1962), pp. 3-27; reprinted in Mathias Delcor, Environnement de l’Ancien Testament (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 228; Kevelaer: Butzon &Bercker, 1990), pp. 252 – 276

Mathias Delcor, Review of Christoph Burchard, Untersuchungen zu Joseph und Aseneth: Uberlieferung-Ortsbestimmung, Revue de Qumran 5 (1965), pp. 590-6

Gerhard Delling, “Einwirkungen der Sprache der Septuaginta in ‘Joseph und Aseneth’”, Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 9 (1978), pp. 29-56

Gerhard Delling, “Die Kunst des Gestaltens in Joseph und Aseneth“, Novum Testamentum 26 (1984), pp. 1-42

Gerhard Delling, Review of Christoph Burchard, “Joseph und Aseneth”, Theologische Literaturzeitung 110 (1985), pp. 357-9

A. -M. Denis, Introduction aux pseudépegraphes grec d’Ancien Testament (= Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, i; Leiden, 1970) PGAT, pp. 40-48

Celia Deutsch, “Aseneth: Ascetical Practice, Vision, and Transformation”, in Daphne V. Arbel and Andrei A. Orlov (eds.), With Letters of Light: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Jewish Apocalypticism, Magic, and Mysticism (In Honor of Rachel Elior; Berlin / New York; De Gruyter, 2011), 325-48

Susan Docherty, “Joseph and Aseneth: Rewritten Bible or Narrative Expansion?” Journal for the Study of Judaism 35.1 (2004): 27-48.

Rees Conrad Douglas, “Liminality and Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 3 (1988), pp. 31-42

P. Dschulnigg, “Parable of the child who flees to the father (Joseph and Aseneth 12,8)”, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 80 (1989), pp. 269-271

P. Dschulnigg, “Considerations concerning the meal-formula in Joseph and Aseneth — An Attempt”, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 80 (1989), pp.272-275

Nicholas Elder, “Joseph and Aseneth: An Entertaining Tale”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 51.1 (2020): 19-42

L. Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, ii (Philadelphia, 1910), pp. 170-8 and v (Philadephia, 1925), pp. 374-5 

Noah Hacham, “Joseph and Aseneth: Loyalty, Traitors, Antiquity and Diasporan Identity”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 22.1 (2012): 53-67 [reproduced on Hacham’s academia.edu page]

W. Herrmann, “Two Corrective Notes & Biblical Descriptive Songs and Joseph and Aseneth“, Vetus Testamentum 41 (1991), pp.342-343

Jill Hicks-Keeton, “Aseneth between Judaism and Christianity: Reframing the Debate”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 49.2 (2018): 189-222

Traugott Holtz, “Christliche Interpolationen in Joseph und Aseneth“, in Eckart Reinmuth and Christian Wolff (eds.), Holtz, Traugott: Geschichte und Theologie des Urchristentums. Gesammelte Aufsätze (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 57; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991), pp.55-71

Melanie A. Howard, “Romanticizing Conversion Narratives: Women, Change, and Female Agency in Twilight and Joseph and Aseneth“, The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31.2 (2019): 127-138

M. Hubbard, “Honey for Aseneth: Interpreting a Religious Symbol”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 16 (1997), pp. 97-110

Edith M. Humphrey, Review of Randall Chesnutt, From Death to Life: Conversion in Joseph and Aseneth in Religious Studies Review 22 (1996), p. 354

Ljubica Jovanović, “Aseneth’s Gaze Turns Swords into Dust”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21.2 (2011): 83-97 [Online at Sage Pub]

Howard Clark Kee, “The Socio-Religious Setting and Aims of Joseph and Asenath” (Society of Biblical Literature Seminar paper series 1976; Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1976), pp. 183-92

Howard Clark Kee, “The Socio-Cultural Setting of Joseph and Aseneth,” New Testament Studies 29 (1983), pp. 394-413

G. D. Kilpatrick, “The Last Supper,” Expository Times 64 (1952-53), pp. 4-8

Kyu Seop Kim, “The Meaning of the Firstborn Son in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 49/3 (2018): 404-16

K. Kohler, “Asenath, Life and Confession or Prayer of” in Jewish Encylopaedia ii (New York, 1902), pp. 172-6

Michael Kochenash, “Trojan Horses: The Counterintuitive Use of Dinah, Helen, and Goliath in Joseph and Aseneth” Journal for the Study of Judaism 52.3 (2020): 417-441

Ross Shepard Kraemer, “The Confession and Marriage of Aseneth” in Ross Shepard Kraemer (ed.), Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: A Sourcebook on Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988), pp. 263-79

Ross Shepard Kraemer, “The Book of Aseneth” in Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (ed.), Searching the Scriptures: Volume 2: A Feminist Commentary (New York: Crossroad, 1994; London: SCM, 1995), pp. 789-816 (of Crossroad edition), pp. 859-88 (of SCM edition)

Ross Shepard Kraemer, “Aseneth as Wisdom” in Athalya Brenner and Carol Fontaine (eds.), Wisdom and Psalms (The Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series), 2; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 218-39

K. G. Kuhn, “The Lord’s Supper and the Communal Meal at Qumran” in K. Stendahl (ed.), The Scrolls and the New Testament (London: SCM, 1958), pp. 74-77  

Judith M. Lieu, Review of E. M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities, Journal of Theological Studies 48 (1997), pp. 219-221

Barnabas Lindars, “Joseph and Asenath and the Eucharist” in Barry P. Thompson (ed.), Scripture: Meaning and Method (Hull: Hull University Press, 1987), pp. 181-199  

H. O. Maier, Review of E. M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities, Studies in Religion- Sciences Religieuses 27/1 (1998), p.79

M. J. J. Menken, “John 6,51c-58: Eucharist or Christology?”, Biblica 74 (1993), pp.1-26 

Eva Mussio,”Crossing Boundaries throughout the Ages: the Value of Imagery in the Novel of Joseph & Aseneth”, Rosetta 8/5 (2010): 75-95 [Online at bham.ac.uk]

G. W. E. Nickelsburg, “Joseph and Aseneth” in M. Stone (ed.), Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus (Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad novum testamentum 2; Assen; Philadelphia: Van Gorcum; Fortress, 1984), pp. 65-71

D. Noy, Review of Gideon Bohak, Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis, Journal of Jewish Studies 49 (1998), pp.149-150  

John C. O’Neill, “What is Joseph and Aseneth about?”, Henoch 16 (1994), pp. 189-98

Andrei A. Orlov, “Unveiling the Face: The Heavenly Counterpart Traditions in Joseph and Aseneth” in The Embroidered Bible 26/x (2017): 771-808 [Online at Marquette University]

C. Osiek, Review of E. M. Humphrey, The Ladies and the Cities, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59 (1997), pp.158-159

Matthew Pawlak, “A desperate romantic gesture: sexuality and slavery in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal of Jewish Studies 69/2 (2018): 248-55 [Online at academia.edu]

Michael Penn, “Identity Transformation and Authorial Identification in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 13.2 (2002): 171-183

Marc Philonenko, “Joseph et Aséneth: Questions actuelles” in W. C. Van Unnik (ed.), La littérature juive entre Tenach et Mischna: Quelque problèmes (Rech. Bib. 9; Leiden, 1974), pp. 73-6

Marc Philonenko, “Joseph et Aseneth. Testament de Job” in Andre Dupont-Sommer and Marc Philonenko (eds.), La Bible. Ecrits intertestamentaires (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade; Paris: Gallimard, 1987), pp. 1559-1645

Anathea Portier-Young, “Sweet Mercy Metropolis: Interpreting Aseneth’s Honeycomb”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14/2 (2005): 133-57

T. L. Putthoff, “Aseneth’s Gastronomical Vision: Mystical Theophagy and the New Creation in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 24/2 (2015): 96-117

D. Sänger, “Exodus und Bekehrung. Zum alttestamentlichen Traditionshintergrund von Joseph und Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 10 (1979), pp. 11-36

D. Sänger, Erwägungen zur historischen Einordnung und zur Datierung von Joseph und Aseneth, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 76 (1985) 86-106 (also in La Littérature Intertestamentaire. Colloque de Starsbourg (17-19 octobre 1983) (Bibliothèque des centres d’études supérieures spécialisés; Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1985), pp. 181-202)

D. Sänger, Review of A. Standhartinger, Das Frauenbild im Judentum der hellenistischen Zeit in Theologische Literaturzeitung 121 (1996) 1149-1153

H. C. Schmitt, Review of C. Burchard, “Joseph und Aseneth”, Werner Georg Kümmel (ed.), Unterweisung in erzählender Form, pp. 577-735 [see above], Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 96 (1984), pp.456-457

Jacques Schwartz, “Recherches sur l’évolution du roman de ‘Joseph et Aseneth’”, Revue des études juives 143 (1984), pp. 273-285

Jacques Schwartz, “Cleopatra et Aseneth”, Revue d’histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses, 65 (1985), pp.457-459

Anthony Sheppard, “Aseneth: A tale from the religious frontier”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 32.1 (2022): 75-98 [The link is to the pre-print version on Sheppard’s academia.edu page]

Anthony Sheppard, “Love, Conversion, and Marriage: The Missing Story of Joseph’s Wife, Aseneth”, CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly Spring 2023: 52-61 [The link is to a the article on Sheppard’s academia.edu page]

Ita Sheres, “Aseneth—From Priestess to Handmaid and Slave”, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 17.2 (1999): 25-35

Tyler Smith, “Complexes of Emotions in Joseph and Aseneth”, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 30/3 (2021): 133-55 [academia.edu]

Angela Standhartinger, “From fictional text to socio-historical context: Some considerations from a textcritical perspective on Joseph and Aseneth” in Society of Biblical Literature 1996 Seminar Papers (Society of Biblical Literature Seminar paper series 35; Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1996), pp. 303-318

Angela Standhartinger, “Joseph und Aseneth. Vollkommene Braut oder himmlische Prophetin” in Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker (eds.), Kompendium Feministische Bibelauslegung (Gütersloh: Christian Kaiser, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998), pp. 459 – 464

Angela Standhartinger, “Recent Scholarship on Joseph and Aseneth (1988-2013), Currents in Biblical Research 12/3 (2014): 353-406

Angela Standhartinger, “Humour in Joseph and Aseneth“, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 24.4 (2015): 239-259 [On Standhartinger’s academia.edu page]

R. Stehly, “Une citation des Upanishads dans Joseph et Aseneth”, Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 55 (1975), pp. 209-213

Matthew Thiessen,”Aseneth’s Eight-Day Transformation as Scriptural Justification for Conversion”, Journal for the Study of Judaism 45.2 (2014): 229-249 [Online at Knowledge Commons Works]

Maria Trautmann, Review of Angela Standhartinger, Das Frauenbild im Judentum der hellenistischen Zeit. Ein Beitrag anhang von “Joseph und Aseneth” in Biblische Zeitschrift 40 (1996), pp. 292-295

Meredith Warren, “A Robe like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and Aseneth” in Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten (eds.), Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (London: Routledge, 2014), 137-54 [online at Whiterose]

Lawrence M. Wills, “The Jewish Novellas [Dan, Esther, Tobit, Judith, Joseph and Aseneth]” in John R. Morgan and Richard Stoneman (eds.), Greek Fiction: the Greek Novel in Context (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 223-38