Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T19:25:29.640Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Legal Note on Potiphar's Wife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Howard Jacobson
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. 61801

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes and Observations
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Redford, D. B., A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970) 78.Google Scholar

2 Cf. Deut 22:23–27. It seems a virtually certain inference that the same was true in Hittite law. See Friedrich, J. and Zimmern, H., Hethitische Gesetze aus dem Staatsarchiv von Boghazkoi (Der alte Orient, vol. 23, 2; Leipzig: Hinrich, 1922) 31, nr. II, 83. Cf. too Euripides, Troades 998–1001.Google Scholar