In an apocryphal love story partially titled for this woman, snow-white bees crowned with golden diadems emerge from honeycombs to sit on her lap at the command of an angel who calls her “City of Refuge.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this woman who, depending on the account, was the daughter of either Potiphar, the priest Potipherah, or Dinah. A child of this woman names a tribe that settled on both sides of the Jordan River.
ANSWER: Asenath [or Aseneth, Āsnaṯ, or Ŏsnát; accept Joseph and Asenath; prompt on Joseph’s wife] (The Child is Manasseh.)
[10e] In the apocryphal Joseph and Asenath, this figure’s son recruits Gad and Dan in a plot to take Asenath by force, only to be foiled by Benjamin. Joseph interprets this figure’s dream about seven lean cows devouring seven fat ones.
ANSWER: Pharaoh
[10m] It’s not the Midrash Aggadah, but this other apocryphal text calls Asenath the daughter of Potiphar. This work, known as the “Lesser Genesis,” is a unique member of the Ethiopian Narrower Canon along with Enoch and the Meqabyan.
ANSWER: Book of Jubilees [accept Book of Division or Mets’hafe Kufale; prompt on Leptogenesis]
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