Talk:Potiphar

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[edit] Potiphar's wife

Is there any way of including Potiphar's wife's name? Anyone know what it is? --aishel 16:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Nope, I don't think it's ever mentioned in the bible -- and that's the only source we even have for her supposed existence. -- Avocado 22:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, I found it doing a google: [1] Her name was Zuleika. Now to add it into the article... --aishel 00:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Please note that the particular Book of Jasher in question is a mediaevalish creation dating from about 1625 - see Sefer haYashar (midrash), and is a midrash (collection of opinions of rabbis of the time), and does not date from Biblical times. --User talk:FDuffy 13:52, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment by Paul Singh: I arrived here whilst researching differences between the Bible & the Koran. I would like to add that there is a beautiful book in print called 'Yusef and Zuleika' by a reknowned persian mystic called Jami. [I think he was a contempory of Jalaladin Rumi also known as Maulana Rum and often refered to simply as Rumi, the writer of The Masnavi.] Yusef & Zuleika is a poem seemingly about the love between these 2 people, but is a metaphor for the love between a soul searching for union with God and that souls' teacher.

[edit] Jahwist

Unless you're German, the author is named Yahwist and abbreviated J.

[edit] Potiphar's Wife's Name

I looked up the above reference for the wife's name, supposedly citing Gen. 39.12. None of my Bibles give a name, and I'm pretty sure no reliable one would. And just as in the Bible, the Qur'an too leaves her nameless.