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Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Sippora). Jacob Jordaens, c. 1650. Moses' wife is referred to as a "Cushite woman" in Numbers 12. Interpretations differ on whether this Cushite woman was one and the same as Zipporah, or another woman, and whether he was married to them simultaneously, or successively.
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.
Makeda, queen of Sheba, from a Mideastern or Ethiopian religion [130] Osenath, from the ancient Egyptian religion (her name relates to Anat) Ruth, great-grandmother of King David, from a Near Eastern religion [131] Yael, from Canaanite or another Near Eastern religion; Zipporah, from a Mideastern or northern African religion
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 .
Significant examples of Black Judaism include Judaism as it is practiced by Ethiopian Jews and African-American Jews. Jews who may be considered Black have existed for millennia, with Zipporah sometimes considered to be one of the first Black Jews who was mentioned within Jewish history. [1] Judaism has been present in sub-Saharan Africa for ...
Jethro, priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, [3] from a Mideastern religion; Makeda, queen of Sheba, from a Mideastern or Ethiopian religion [4] Dhu Nuwas, king of Yemen, from a Mideastern religion [5] Obadiah the prophet, from a Mideastern religion [6] Sh'maya, Sage and President of the Sanhedrin, apparently from a Mideastern religion [7]
The Book of Numbers 12:1 calls a wife of Moses "a Cushite woman", whereas Moses's wife Zipporah is usually described as hailing from Midian. Ezekiel the Tragedian's Exagoge 60-65 (fragments reproduced in Eusebius) has Zipporah describe herself as a stranger in Midian, and proceeds to describe the inhabitants of her ancestral lands in North Africa:
In early Modern Hebrew usage, the term Cushi was used as an unmarked referent to a dark-skinned or red-haired person, without derogatory implications. [2] For example, it is the nickname, or term of endearment, of the Israeli commando of Yemenite extraction, Shimon "Kushi" Rimon (b. 1939).