Sacrilegious? A Midrash That Makes No Sense to Me!

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (1631 painting by Guido Reni) Wikipedia

I know that some people will find this rather sacrilegious.  I'm not a great fan of "drash," lots of the Midrashim about the Bible. My way of studying the Bible is reading it, yes, even in translation, but I read the words. I first want to see what the Bible says, not what "could have happened."

Quite often I find the stories very clear, but it's the interpretations that don't make any sense at all. I find it worse than incomprehensible that Yosef's wife Osnat could be the child Dina had from being raped by Shechem. Those who like that interpretation say that Osnat (Josef's wife) who is also identified as Potiphar's daughter is really their adopted daughter and that when Potiphar's wife tried to seduce Joseph it was because she thought that she, not her daughter was supposed to marry him.

The abduction of Dinah, depicted by James Tissot, Wikipedia

None of this makes sense to me. I honestly don't think that Jacob would have his granddaughter given to a high Egyptian official. And I certainly don't think that Dina would have given up her child, no matter how she was conceived. I also don't think that Potiphar would have taken a foreign child, a Jewish one at that, and adopted her to be his daughter. It's all too absurd.

What do you think? Please let me know in the comments, thanks.

This was written a few days ago and was scheduled to post.