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Latest comment: 1 year ago by 170.55.96.50 in topic Possible identification as Pentawer

Gender disagreement

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Potipherah is referred to as "she" in the part in which she is said to be the mother of Asenath (the text says that Asenath was the daughter of Potipherah, no gender implied either way). Then Potipherah is referred to as "he" when the meaning of the name is explained. Potiphar, who owned Joseph as a slave, was male. So which is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.9.152.205 (talk) 15:37, 15 February 2010 (UTC) The Bible says "priest", not "priestess", so it is a man. 74.241.226.147 (talk) 14:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Possible identification as Pentawer

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I think many of the names in the Abraham->Joseph->Moses appear as 20th dynasty royals from Egypt. Potipherah is probably derived from Petawer/Pentaweret Pentawer; w and f are sometimes interchangeable in egyptian.

"As Joyce Tyldesley explains in Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt, “The name Pentawaret translates as ‘The [male] One of the [female] Great One’, the female Great One presumably being his mother, Tiy. This was almost certainly not the prince’s real name. Records of criminal trials tended to replace ‘good’ Egyptian names—names incorporating the name of a god, for example—with more appropriate descriptive ‘bad’ names, and this is likely to be the New Kingdom Equivalent of the Old Kingdom Queen ‘Great of Sceptre’ whom we met in the Pepi I harem case” (Tyldesley, 168)." 170.55.96.50 (talk) 20:30, 12 September 2024 (UTC)Reply