Although Miriam was not Moses’ “little sister,” but his older ... first to consult the Bible, the foundational text of Judaism that every paytan or composer of piyyutim knew practically ...

Miriam and Aaron grumble against their brother Moses because he married “a Cushite woman.” My Bible says “Cushite” means she’s from Nubia or Ethiopia—African rather than Semitic.

While the Bible records few details about her life ... they were actually Yocheved and her daughter Miriam, Moses’ sister. Why was her alternate name Shiphrah? Because she would cleanse ...

Moses and the people sang together with joy “The Song at the Sea”; Miriam and the women added ... A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible, a commentary on the paintings by her husband ...

“Some people say that the Bible doesn’t give enough place to women ... affects us.” Jocheved, mother of Moses, Aaron and Miriam, set the Passover story in motion by putting baby Moses in a basket in ...

But there's much more to Miriam's influence in Moses' life: "This is one of those stories in the Bible that you can see...you can feel it as it's unfolding," says Bream. For the full story of ...

The second was Miriam, Yocheved’s daughter and Moses’ elder sister ... and Esther in the Bible to more modern religious figures like Sarah Schenirer and Nechama Leibowitz, to more secular ...

Talmudic sages believed that Shifrah and Puah were actually Moses’s mother, Yocheved, and his older sister, Miriam (with Yocheved being Shifrah). But whether or not Yocheved was one of the ...

Archaeologists have recently uncovered significant findings in Zanoah, a location mentioned in the Old Testament, shedding light on the ancient Bible story of Moses leading the Israelites to the ...