Joseph and Asenath (1918 Brooks), book

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Joseph and Asenath: The Confession and Prayer of Asenath, Daughter of Pentephres the Priest (1918) is a book by Ernest Walter Brooks.

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Table of contents

  • 1. ASENATH IS SOUGHT IN MARRIAGE BY THE KING'S SON AND MANY OTHERS
  • 2. THE TOWER IN WHICH ASENATH LIVES IS DESCRIBED
  • 3. JOSEPH ANNOUNCES HIS COMING TO PENTEPHRES
  • 4. PENTEPHRES PROPOSES TO GIVE ASENATH TO JOSEPH IN MARRIAGE
  • 5. JOSEPH ARRIVES AT PENTEPHRES' HOUSE
  • 6. ASENATH SEES JOSEPH FROM THE WINDOW
  • 7. JOSEPH SEES ASENATH AT THE WINDOW
  • 8. JOSEPH BLESSES ASENATH
  • 9. ASENATH RETIRES AND JOSEPH PREPARES TO DEPART
  • 10. ASENATH REJECTS THE EGYPTIAN GODS AND ABASES HERSELF
  • 11. ASENATH RESOLVES TO PRAY TO THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS
  • 12. ASENATH'S PRAYER
  • 13. ASENATH'S PRAYER (continued)
  • 14. THE ARCHANGEL VISITS ASENATH
  • 15. MICHAEL TELLS ASENATH THAT SHE SHALL BE JOSEPH'S WIFE
  • 16. ASENATH FINDS A HONEYCOMB IN HER STOREHOUSE
  • 17. MICHAEL DEPARTS
  • 18. ASENATH'S FACE IS TRANSFORMED
  • 19. JOSEPH RETURNS AND IS RECEIVED BY ASENATH
  • 20. PENTEPHRES RETURNS AND WISHES TO BETROTH ASENATH TO JOSEPH, BUT JOSEPH RESOLVES TO ASK HER HAND FROM PHARAOH
  • 21. THE MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH AND ASENATH
  • 22. ASENATH IS INTRODUCED TO JACOB
  • 23. PHARAOH'S SON TRIES TO INDUCE SIMEON AND LEVI TO KILL JOSEPH
  • 24. PHARAOH'S SON CONSPIRES WITH DAN AND GAD TO KILL JOSEPH AND SEIZE ASENATH
  • 25. PHARAOH'S SON GOES TO KILL HIS FATHER, BUT IS NOT ADMITTED. NEPHTHALIM AND ASHER PROTEST TO GAD AND DAN AGAINST THE CONSPIRACY
  • 26. THE CONSPIRATORS KILL ASENATH'S GUARDS AND SHE FLEES
  • 27. THE MEN WITH PHARAOH'S SON AND THOSE WITH DAN AND GAD ARE KILLED; AND THE FOUR BROTHERS FLEE TO THE RAVINE AND THEIR SWORDS ARE STRICKEN FROM THEIR HANDS
  • 28. DAN AND GAD ARE SPARED AT ASENATH'S ENTREATY
  • 29. PHARAOH'S SON DIES. PHARAOH ALSO DIES AND JOSEPH SUCCEEDS HIM

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