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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
Pre-Biblical Aaron, Miriam, and Moses.…
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.…
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: Were They Siblings? - TheTorah.com
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: Were They Siblings?…
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.…
When and Where the Israelites Dwelt in Sukkot - TheTorah.com
The tradition that Miriam died in the fortieth year goes back at least as far as Josephus (Ant. 4:78): Then it was that Miriam…
Why Do Miriam and Aaron Criticize Moses for Marrying a Kushite Woman? - TheTorah.com
And Aaron turned towards Miriam and saw that she was leprous.…
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
Num 12:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Cushite woman he had married: “He married a Cushite woman!”…
Prof. Rev. Wil Gafney | TheTorah.com
and of the Throne, (Westminster/John Knox, 2017); Nahum, Habakkuk and, Zephaniah (Wisdom Commentary, 2017) and Daughters of Miriam…
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.…
The Other Ohel Moed - TheTorah.com
Miriam and Aaron’s Slander.…
Israel Will Be as Numerous as the Stars: But There Are Only 1022 Stars! - TheTorah.com
Miriam Goldstein. Categories: Abraham Contemplates the Stars, Ephraim Moses Lilien, The Books of the Bible, 1908 (adapted).…
Retelling the Story of Moses at Dura Europos Synagogue - TheTorah.com
the valley of the dry bones; the ark of the covenant in the land of the Philistines; the tribes of Israel around the well of Miriam…
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 וַתְּדַבֵּר…
The Israelites Are Not the Hyksos! - TheTorah.com
Assmann, Moses the Egyptian, The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1997), 41. [13] See: Miriam…
The “Egyptian” Midwives - TheTorah.com
Midrashic interpretation goes even farther, identifying the two midwives with the famous Jewish female characters, Yocheved and Miriam…
The Historical Exodus - TheTorah.com
These included the Song of Miriam and the Song of Deborah in Judges 5.…
