Editing Potiphar (section)

==Religious references==
Tying Potiphar or Joseph accurately to a particular pharaoh or period is difficult. According to the [[Jewish calendar]], Joseph was purchased in the year 2216, which is 1544 BC, at the end of the [[Second Intermediate Period]] or the very beginning of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]]. The [[Torah]] in which the story appears (see also the [[Bible]] and the [[Quran]]) was the earliest written of the three: c. 600 BC during the Babylonian Exile. According to the [[documentary hypothesis]], the story of Potiphar and his wife is credited to the [[Yahwist]] source and stands in the same place that the stories of the butler and the baker and Pharaoh's dreams stand in the [[Elohist]] text.

A similar story is found in the [[Tale of Two Brothers]], where the wife of [[Anubis|Anpu]] tries to seduce his brother [[Bata (god)|Bata]].