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Miriam
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Re-Encountering Miriam - TheTorah.com
Miriam at the Sea. Note as well how Miriam’s role brackets the Exodus story at its beginning and end.…
Prof. Miriam Goldstein | TheTorah.com
Miriam Goldstein. Hebrew University. Prof.…
More about Miriam the Prophetess - TheTorah.com
More about Miriam the Prophetess. The Dead Sea Scrolls elaborate on Miriam’s leadership role and personal history. Prof.…
Pre-Biblical Aaron, Miriam, and Moses - TheTorah.com
In introducing Miriam’s song, the verse says: שמות טו:כ. וַתִּקַּח מִרְיָם הַנְּבִיאָה. אֲחוֹת אַהֲרֹן.…
Will the Real Miriam Please Stand Up? - TheTorah.com
Will the Real Miriam Please Stand Up? In biblical tradition, Miriam is known as Moses’ sister.…
Giving Miriam and the Matriarchs Their Proper Funerals - TheTorah.com
Giving Miriam and the Matriarchs Their Proper Funerals.…
Miriam Complains of Moses’ Cushite Wife: Hezekiah Married the Wrong Empire! - TheTorah.com
Miriam Complains of Moses’ Cushite Wife: Hezekiah Married the Wrong Empire! In the 8. th. century B.C.E.…
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: Were They Siblings? - TheTorah.com
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: Were They Siblings?…
When and Where the Israelites Dwelt in Sukkot - TheTorah.com
The death of Miriam, however, is part of the E text.…
Miriam's Song of the Sea: A Women's Victory Performance
Miriam’s Song of the Sea: A Women’s Victory Performance.…
Moses’ Black-Skinned Wife: What Does the Torah Think of Her?
Miriam’s punishment may hold the key. Prof. Sidnie White Crawford.…
Why Do Miriam and Aaron Criticize Moses for Marrying a Kushite Woman? - TheTorah.com
Why Do Miriam and Aaron Criticize Moses for Marrying a Kushite Woman? Were they racists? Prof. David Goldenberg.…
Moses and the Kushite Woman: Classic Interpretations and Philo’s Allegory - TheTorah.com
What Bothered Miriam and Aaron?…
Miriam's Death
Miriam's Death. Browse Topics: All Topics…
Did Moses Become Celibate? - TheTorah.com
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Cushite woman he had married: “He married a Cushite woman!”. 12:2.…
Prof. Rev. Wil Gafney | TheTorah.com
Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel. (Fortress Press, 2007).…
Prof. Hanna Tervanotko | TheTorah.com
Tervanotko’s first book was, Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature. (2016).…
The Ritual Violation that Bars Moses and Aaron from Entering the Land - TheTorah.com
Hint: The story follows the red heifer ritual, i.e. the laws of corpse contamination, and the death of their sister Miriam.…
Israel Will Be as Numerous as the Stars: But There Are Only 1022 Stars! - TheTorah.com
Miriam Goldstein.…
The Other Ohel Moed - TheTorah.com
Miriam and Aaron’s Slander.…
Retelling the Story of Moses at Dura Europos Synagogue - TheTorah.com
Miriam and Yocheved: The Midwives?…
Moses’ Kushite Wife Was Zipporah the Midianite - TheTorah.com
The next time we hear of Moses’ wife is when Miriam and Aaron complain about her in the book of Numbers: במדבר יב:א.…
The “Egyptian” Midwives - TheTorah.com
Midrashic interpretation goes even farther, identifying the two midwives with the famous Jewish female characters, Yocheved and Miriam…
The Israelites Are Not the Hyksos! - TheTorah.com
(Cambridge: Harvard University, 1997), 41. [13] See: Miriam Lichtheim, “The Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana” in.…
