Torah Portion Beshalach & Repentance in the Pseudepigrapha

Mary Bright delivers this week’s Torah Portion on Beshalach, When He Sent. This Torah Portion covers Exodus 14:26-17:16, the Haftarah portion covering Joshua 3:9-17 and 4:19-24, and the Brit Chadashah portion of John 6:22-40.

The second portion for this week closes out our examination of the Joseph and Aseneth story as found within the pseudepigrapha, a collection of works that is not part of the biblical canon, but nonetheless provides a framework in which we can understand the biblical worldview in and around the time of Christ. This week, we examine in more detail the change we undergo with repentance and what marriage between the bride and bridegroom look like.