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Like many other prominent biblical characters, Zipporah is depicted in several works of art. In Marcel Proust's story Swann's Way (1913), Swann is struck by the resemblance of his eventual wife Odette to Sandro Botticelli’s painting of Zipporah in a Sistine Chapel fresco, and this recognition is the catalyst for his obsession with her. [22]
The story would seem to illustrate that the phrase does not imply that a bridegroom should or may be circumcised at the time of his marriage, but that Moses by being bloodied by the foreskin of his son became a "bridegroom of blood" to Zipporah. The story has also been interpreted as emphasizing the point that the circumcision must be performed ...
Articles relating to Zipporah and her depictions. She is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses , and the daughter of Reuel/Jethro , the priest and prince of Midian . She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer , and Gershom .
Jethro's daughter, Zipporah, became Moses' wife after Moses fled Egypt for killing an Egyptian who was beating an enslaved Hebrew. Having fled to Midian, Moses intervened in a water-access dispute between Jethro's seven daughters and the local shepherds; Jethro consequently invited Moses into his home and offered him hospitality.
According to the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם Gēršōm, "a sojourner there"; Latin: Gersam) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. [1] The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, (גר שם ger sham), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.
Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Dutch: Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Seporah) is a painting of 1645–1650, by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens. [1] [2] The painting is a half-length depiction of the biblical prophet Moses, and his African wife. The oil on canvas painting is now in the Rubenshuis museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
The name of Moses' wife, Zipporah, was changed to "Sephora", ... Cecil B. DeMille's all-star spectacular is a muscular retelling of the great Bible story." ...
In gratitude, their father gives Moses the choice of one of them to take for his wife. He refuses but is later convinced by Zipporah to marry her. Moses, still wanting to know why God allows the Hebrews to be enslaved, climbs Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb) and is confronted by God in the form of a bush that burns but is not consumed.