Potiphar. Potiphar, also known as Aziz in Islam, is figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.
He is the captain of Pharaoh's guard who is said to have purchased Joseph as a slave and, impressed by his intelligence, makes him the master of his household. Unfortunately, Potiphar's wife, who was known for her infidelities, took a liking to Joseph, and attempted to seduce him.
When Joseph refused her advances, and ran off, she retaliated by falsely accusing him of trying to rape her, and Potiphar had Joseph imprisoned. According to G.J.
Wenham, execution was normal in rape cases, and so the story implies that Potiphar had doubts about his wife's account. What happened to Potiphar after that is unclear; some sources identify him as Potipherah, an Egyptian priest whose daughter, Asenath, marries Joseph.
The false accusation by Potiphar's wife plays an important role in Joseph's narrative, because had he not been imprisoned, he would not have met the fellow prisoner who introduced him to Pharaoh. The medieval Sefer HaYashar, a commentary on the Torah, gives Potiphar's wife's name as Zuleikha, as do many Islamic traditions-thus the Persian poem called Yusuf and Zulaikha from Jami's Haft Awrang. Because of the Egyptian location of the story, it is not impossible to detect in the biblical account a more recent echo of the very old Egyptian fable of the two brothers Bata and Anpu. The story became
He is the captain of Pharaoh's guard who is said to have purchased Joseph as a slave and, impressed by his intelligence, makes him the master of his household. Unfortunately, Potiphar's wife, who was known for her infidelities, took a liking to Joseph, and attempted to seduce him.
When Joseph refused her advances, and ran off, she retaliated by falsely accusing him of trying to rape her, and Potiphar had Joseph imprisoned. According to G.J.
Wenham, execution was normal in rape cases, and so the story implies that Potiphar had doubts about his wife's account. What happened to Potiphar after that is unclear; some sources identify him as Potipherah, an Egyptian priest whose daughter, Asenath, marries Joseph.
The false accusation by Potiphar's wife plays an important role in Joseph's narrative, because had he not been imprisoned, he would not have met the fellow prisoner who introduced him to Pharaoh. The medieval Sefer HaYashar, a commentary on the Torah, gives Potiphar's wife's name as Zuleikha, as do many Islamic traditions-thus the Persian poem called Yusuf and Zulaikha from Jami's Haft Awrang. Because of the Egyptian location of the story, it is not impossible to detect in the biblical account a more recent echo of the very old Egyptian fable of the two brothers Bata and Anpu. The story became
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