Endnote 16 – Pharaoh’s Man, ‘Abdiel: The Vizier with a Semitic Name
Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski, a specialist of the Judaism and the Jews in Egypt in the Greco-Roman period, presents ‘Aper-El as a “proto-Joseph,” avoiding the impossible confusion and identification, but seeing nevertheless a link between the two characters; see Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski, The Jews of Egypt: From Ramesses II to the Emperor Hadrian (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1997).