Title Joseph and Potiphar's wife in world literature; an anthology of the story of the chaste youth and the lustful stepmother. / Translated by various hands and edited with commentary by John D. Yohannan.

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Description	x, 310 pages ; 22 cm.
Series	A New Directions book
	New Directions book.
Bibliography	"Bibliographical notes": pages 305-310.
Contents	Prologue in the ancient Near East; the archetypal folktale: "Anpu and Bata" (Egyptian).--Biblical narrative: Genesis 39 (Hebrew).--Classical drama: The Hippolytus of Euripides (Greek) The Phèdre of Jean Racine (French) The Phaedra of Kenneth Rexroth (American).--Moslem parable: "Yusuf," Chapter XII, Koran (Arabic) Yusuf and Zulaikha, a verse-novel, by Jami (Persian) "Potiphar's Wife," a poem by Sir Edwin Arnold (English).--Buddhist homily: "The eyes of Kunala," a moral tale (Indian) Gappo and his daughter Tsuji, a puppet play by Suga Sensuke (Japanese).--Medieval epic and fabliau: "Siyawush and Sudaba," from Firdausi's Shahnamah (Iranian) From the Book of the wiles of women; the frame story (Spanish).--Epilogue in twentieth century Europe: Thomas Mann's "Joseph" novels (German)
Subject	Literature -- Collections.
	Literature.
Genre/Form	Collections.
Subject	Adultery.
	Adultery.
ISBN	8.50