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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.
Tharbis (alternatively Adoniah [1] [2]), according to Josephus, was a Cushite princess of the Kingdom of Kush, who married Moses prior to his marriage to Zipporah as told in the Book of Exodus. [ 3 ] Purported family
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.
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 ...
The Ethiopian Jewish community—known as Beta Israel—has ties to the Zionist project dating back to the 1860s. The group was formally recognized by a number of prominent rabbis in 1973 as ...
Moses, now 67 years old, went from Ethiopia to Midian. [30] According to Josephus's account of this story (see Moses in Hellenistic literature), after Moses's marriage to the daughter of the Ethiopian king, he did not become King of Ethiopia but led his troops back to Egypt, where he remained. The Egyptians and even the Pharaoh were envious of ...