That same day, Potiphera went out for a walk, and heard a baby crying. He told his servants to bring her into the house. He saw the tablet and said “she is the daughter of a great people.” ...

Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. ‘For,’ he said, ‘God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.’ ...

It’s a strange verse: “And to Yosef were born two sons…whom Asnas, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On, bore to him” (Bereishis 41:50). Why couldn’t the Torah just state, “And ...

The complexities of a relationship between two entirely different ethnicities are demonstrated when Potiphera, priest of On, presents his daughter, Asenath, as a wife to Joseph, a Hebrew patriarch ...

Thirdly, the wife of Potiphar threatened to blind Yoseif's eyes to literally put out his light. Potiphera was threatening a very specific Yoseif-ish, and Jewish, eye and light.

In Genesis, we learn Asenath is the daughter of Potiphera, Priest of On. According to Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, the term Potiphera referred to “priests of foreign gods in ...

How could the grandsons of Potiphera be accepted on equal footing with Jacob’s sons as progenitors of the tribes of Israel? In ancient Israel, society was tribal and the wife automatically ...

The Bible states (41:37-45, 50–52; 46:20) that Joseph married Aseneth (also spelt Asenath) who was Egyptian, the daughter of Potiphera, the Egyptian priest of On, and had two children by her ...