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  JewishEncyclopedia.com - ASENATH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath, the daughter of Potiphar (Pentephres), priest of Heliopolis (On), a rich man and chief counselor of Pharaoh, far surpassed the Egyptian maidens in beauty; for she was "tall like Sarah, handsome like Rebekah, and fair like Rachel," and the fame of her beauty filled the land.
Asenath returns to her rooms, and with bitter tears, repenting of her idolatrous practises, spends eight days in fasting and penance; putting on sackcloth, strewing ashes upon her head, lying on the floor strewn with ashes, and foregoing sleep at night.
Asenath is presented as the type of a true proselyte who, finding herself forsaken when renouncing her idolatry, seeks and finds refuge in God.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1905&letter=A&search=Asenath   (2270 words)

  
 Asenath "Poly" Oldersham
When her powers manifested permanently, she underwent a substantial change, starting with the addition of a foot of height (most of it in the legs), almost that much in maximum circumference (equally fetching), and three or four times as much in hair (which is now green-fl as a forest at night).
Aside from the peculiarities instilled by her background, Asenath is a reasonably reasonable person: kind-hearted, generous, fond of children, not willing to stand by and let evil run loose in the world.
Asenath caught a bus to San Francisco with the little money she had and got a job as a waitress at an all-night coffeeshop and an apartment with housemates equally delighted to be free of their respective pasts.
www.idiom.com /~trip/gaming/nc/poly.html   (1344 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The advent of Asenath, whose Biblical parents are Potiphar/Potiphera (they are one and the same) and his mysteriously seductive yet unnamed wife, is befuddled by our rabbinic commentators, who want to deliver the unfortunate Dinah from her ignominy.
Asenath, the forbidden woman (read: shikse), was part of the enticing package that awaited Joseph after he had rescued the Pharaonic dynasty from an egregious famine.
For Asenath, whatever her origin - Egyptian, or “e-mailed” from Shechem, it was an unanticipated life career of achievement and a destiny of glory.
www.emanuelnyc.org /bulletin/bull26.html   (495 words)

  
 Meridian Magazine : : Jacob's Seventieth Descendant
Asenath goes into a soliloquy where she states that she is "an orphan, and desolate and abandoned and hated" (J&A 11:3).
The story speaks of Asenath's "foster father." He does not appear to be Potipherah, but rather a steward (J&A 18:2), but it is interesting that the story includes her foster father.
Similarly, it appears that the author of Joseph and Asenath wrote the account to be consistent with all of the historical setting of which he was aware.
www.meridianmagazine.com /sci_rel/000818answer.html   (2791 words)

  
 Asenath Elizabeth Browning Carling
My mother, Asenath Elizabeth Browning Carling, Than whom there was no purer, more devoted and faithful mother, always setting good examples to her children and all who knew or associated with her.
Asenath had been ill and was unable to leave her home for Relief Society presidency meeting so Isaac gathered the other ladies, including Eliza R. Snow, and brought them to her by wagon.
Asenath Elizabeth, wife of Isaac V. Carling, and daughter of Jonathon and Elizabeth Browning.
www.ida.net /users/elaine/asenath.htm   (2004 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath Mpatwa is an example of one of our outstanding international students, and the sacrifices they sometimes have to make to further their education.
Asenath had been awarded a scholarship from World Bank to enroll in the ITP and her agency, the Tanzanian Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, had given her a leave of absence.
Asenath was raised in a small village in Tanzania, and her father was a teacher.
www.colorado.edu /engineering/CUE95/mpatwastoryx   (452 words)

  
 Asenath Slafter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath Slafter was born at Mansfield, Connecticut, Aug 18, 1796.
Some two years later Asenath and her mother and two younger sisters Julia and Lucinda also were baptized into that religion.
Asenath was now husbandless again and faced the great journey westward with her aged mother and daughter.
www.johnpratt.com /gen/b/7.a_slafter.html   (448 words)

  
 The Prodigies of Monkfield Cabot by Michael Minnis
Asenath Waite, daughter of the wizard Ephriam, is looking for a good man. Jonathan Dismdale, dabbler in the occult, seeks knowledge and enlightenment.
Asenath was greedy, her kisses so hard and driving it seemed to Jon as if she were unconsciously trying to force her way into him.
Asenath, unperturbed, removed the compass point and let her blood fall serenely in what seemed a careful pattern.
www.netherreal.de /crypt/prodigy/prodigy.htm   (11357 words)

  
 Bayard Taylor : Beauty and The Beast, and Tales of Home : Friend Eli's Daughter
Asenath, who followed, was almost as plainly attired, her dress being a dark- blue calico, while a white pasteboard sun-bonnet, with broad cape, covered her head.
Asenath had generally an hour or two of leisure from domestic duties in the afternoons, or after the early supper of summer was over; and sometimes, on "Seventh-days," she would be his guide to some locality where the rarer plants were known to exist.
Asenath was now a woman of thirty-five, and suitors had ceased to approach her.
www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.90/sec.18   (9555 words)

  
 The Story of Asenath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His daughter, Asenath, was the fairest of all the virgins of the earth; and seemed rather to be a daughter of Israel than an Egyptian.
And Asenath was queenly as Sarah, gracious as Rebecca, and fair as Rachel.
Of the penitence of Asenath, and of the consolation of an angel; how he came from Heaven to the chamber of Asenath, and spake with her and sweetly comforted her.
www.pos1.info /a/asenath.htm   (2374 words)

  
 Asenath Rebecca Hinshaw
Asenath was shown in the 1900 census (Jun 2 1900) living with her parents in Sterling, Rice County, Kansas:
Hinshaw, Asenath R., sister-in-law, age 22, born Feb 1878 in Kansas; parents born in Indiana; single; attended school 9 months.
Asenath Rebecca Hinshaw died Aug 19 1966, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas.
www.rawbw.com /~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?4370   (290 words)

  
 Bridal Study on Joseph and Asenath
This glory came to him and Asenath who was given to him (during this time) for their unification.
It will be all glory for the true Bride, as for Asenath, she remembers the sufferings which He bore.
Asenath is mentioned before we are told that Joseph was 30 years old.
www.preacherscorner.org /kanoy3.htm   (761 words)

  
 The Cthulhu Lexicon - The W's
Asenath is described as dark, smallish, and very good looking except for over-protuberant eyes.
Asenath was half-breed, a mix of human blood and the horrific intercourse with the Deep Ones.
Unfortunately for Asenath, she was the only one with the right kind of brain and weak enough will for him to be successful.
www.netherreal.de /library/lex_entry/w1.htm   (3871 words)

  
 Treachery Punished
But as soon as Asenath supplicated God for aid, the swords dropped from the hands of her assailants, and they saw that the Lord was on the side of Asenath.
When the sons of Leah appeared, Asenath fell down before them, and amid tears she adjured them to spare the sons of the handmaids and not repay with evil the evil they had meditated.
She succeeded in calming the anger of Simon, and in Levi she had a secret ally, for this prophet knew the hiding-place of the sons of the handmaids, and he did not betray it to Simon, lest his wrath be increased at the sight of them.
www.globusz.com /ebooks/LegJew2/00000049.htm   (580 words)

  
 Asenath
Her father was Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's magnates, ranking among the most distinguished of them by reason of wisdom, wealth, and station.
At that moment Joseph's arrival was announced, and Asenath left the presence of her parents and withdrew to her own apartments.
Joseph granted the favor he desired, and Asenath appeared and greeted him with the words, "Peace be with thee, thou blessed of God Most High," whereunto Joseph returned the salutation, "Be thou blessed of the Lord, from whom flow all blessings."
www.globusz.com /ebooks/LegJew2/00000046.htm   (697 words)

  
 Chelmsford Historical Society-Calendar
Asenath Manning was born June 29, 1791, to Jonathan and Martha Manning of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
His book of penmanship was done in the year 1805, at the age of 14.
The sayings collected here, as written by Asenath Manning, represent just a few of his recommendations to the youth of the time.
www.chelmhist.org /benfranklin.htm   (161 words)

  
 Never Leave Your Nads Behind - RPGnet Forums
At that moment Asenath stepped into the living room, if I haven't said it before let me say it now that she was a very pretty girl- flipper arm or not.
Asenath wasn't bad at all as a role player, the two things I found unnerving about her was that she never seemed to blink and that she was pretty much making out with the GM all the while we played.
Because Asenath's character had survived the teleporting meteor bomb she had been taken in by a cadre of space angels opposed to the vaguely alien slavery.
forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?s=&threadid=18060   (2866 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - ASENATH.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But Jacob placed upon the child's neck a talismanic plate engraved with the name of God, and—according to one version—left her exposed under a thorn-bush (
, "seneh," whence the name of the girl, "Asenath"), and the angel Gabriel carried her to the house of Potiphar in Egypt, where the latter's wife, being childless, reared her as her own daughter.
Stories about Asenath, somewhat similar to the Midrashic traditions, are found in Syriac and Arabic literatures.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1904&letter=A   (217 words)

  
 6k   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath is given to Joseph in marriage by Pharaoh.
In this chapter, Asenath and her father were going to Potiphar's house for the feast.
He was captain of the king's guard and head of all security for the palace.
www.iamoconf.xroads.net /globetrotter1/litSurv/6k.htm   (383 words)

  
 Asenath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath (אָסְנַת, Standard Hebrew Ásənat, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĀsənaṯ: from Egyptian "Gift of the sun-god"), mentioned in the Book of Genesis, was an Egyptian woman, the daughter of Poti-pherah the priest of On, whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph son of Jacob to be his wife.
She bore Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, who each became patriarchs of their own tribes of Israel.
According to the Jewish midrashim, Asenath is believed to be the daughter of Dinah from her rape by Shechem.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Asenath.htm   (203 words)

  
 Joseph and Asenath (2)
In the type, Asenath, the wife of Joseph, was not affected by the time of famine.
She was noticeably absent during events surrounding the famine, which included events surrounding Joseph's dealings with his brethren during the time of famine.
She, as Asenath in relation to Joseph, or Zipporah in relation to Moses, will be separated from Christ during this time and be reunited with Christ only after He concludes His dealings with Israel.
www.lampbroadcast.org /TBG5.html   (3622 words)

  
 Jacob's Seventieth Descendant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A principal theme is Asenath's total conversion to Joseph's religion, facilitated by the appearance of an angel who looked like Joseph (J&A 14:9).
The point is made that Asenath does not look anything like other Egyptian women, but that she was "slender like unto Sarah, beautiful like Rebekah, and radiant in appearance like Rachel."
Stating that she looked exactly like the three wives of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all of whom were from Abraham's family, has a pretty clear implications about her true lineage, without giving details.
www.johnpratt.com /items/docs/lds/meridian/2000/puzzle_ans.html   (2804 words)

  
 Ancestors of Laura Blomquist Weaver Asenath Robinson
Asenath married Lovenor Twiggs about 1848 in Woodstock, Warren County, Illinois.
She was sealed to her spouse on 3 Feb 1922 at Salt Lake Utah.
Asenath also married John Brown in 1835 in Woodstock, Warren County, Illinois.
www.angelfire.com /ak4/families/5507.htm   (132 words)

  
 Asenath C. odle/Odel/O'dell Ramsey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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At least one of their 11 children was born in Ohio; Ann was born 11/30/1834 in Ohio.
Any help with finding Asenath's family would be appreciated.
www.donet.com /~scioto/cgi-bin/queries/ross/2000/index.cgi?read=1033   (105 words)

  
 Milken Educator - G. Asenath Andrews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the time of the Award, G. Asenath Andrews was:
Asenath Andrews is principal of the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit - an institute for middle and high school students who are pregnant or are parents.
Created in response to studies which show that the majority of teenage mothers drop out of school due to lack of childcare assistance, this institute provides on-site child care while mothers, and some fathers, continue their education.
www.mff.org /mea/mea.taf?page=recipient&meaID=625   (155 words)

  
 7k   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
What was Asenath's motive for asking for Merit for her birthday?
Asenath asked Senetenpu if she thought that Merit would be happy living with her.
According to the author, how might this ending be a happy one for Asenath?
www.iamoconf.xroads.net /globetrotter1/litSurv/7k.htm   (458 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Asenath (Biblical Proper Names, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Asenath (Biblical Proper Names, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Her betrothal to Joseph and conversion to Judaism are the subject of Joseph and Asenath, one of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Asenath.html   (143 words)

  
 Joseph and Asenath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is the confession and prayer of Asenath, daughter of Pentephres the priest.
In the Book of Genesis, Asenath is mentioned three times only.
However, from these references, the elaborate romance contained in this book has been constructed.
www.innvista.com /culture/religion/pseudep/asenath.htm   (117 words)

  
 King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Come, dear Cousin Asenath, and I will show you the garden.
He is interrupted by the re-entrance of Asenath.
It is so hard to keep one's hair in order when one walks in the garden.
www.blackmask.com /books105c/kgrts.htm   (15199 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CAROTHERS, ASENATH WALLACE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Asenath (Cenie) W. Carothers, clubwoman and university administrator, daughter of William J. and Susan (Williams) Wallace, was born on the family plantation at New London, Arkansas, on February 6, 1859.
She was orphaned by the age of five and was reared by her aunt in Starkville, Mississippi, where she attended Starkville Seminary for Women and graduated with honors.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/CC/fcacd.html   (379 words)

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