[http://quintaprofeti.com/josephElam Rotem: Rappresentatione di Giuseppe e i suoi Fratelli
Joseph and his Brethren – Musical drama in three acts, composed in the spirit of the early operas for five voices, basso continuo, and instruments. ].
Redford 1970, p. 242: "several episodes in the narrative, and the plot motifs themselves, find some parallel in Saite, Persian, or Ptolemaic Egypt. It is the sheer weight of evidence, and not the argument from silence, that leads to the conclusion that the seventh century B.C. is the terminus a quo for the Egyptian background to the Joseph Story. If we assign the third quarter of the fifth century B.C.E. as the terminus ante quem, we are left with a span of two and one half centuries, comprising in terms of Egyptian history the Saite and early Persian periods."
