Moses' Women

About this book

The story of the man Moses born Hebrew and raised as Egyptian royalty cannot be told without an understanding of the women in his life. The Bible tells us that Moses was born to Yocheved daughter of Levi third son of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. He was watched over by his sister Miriam drawn from the Nile waters by Batya daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh and married to Zipporah daughter of the high priest of Midian. This book draws upon the midrash the Talmud and other Rabbinic sources to reveal stories of the women who reared Moses bore his children advised him and shared the glorious life of history s premiere religious heroic figure. Moses women intervened to save him time and again when his very life was trembling in the balance helping to mold Moses into an empathic man leader and teacher. Moses Women tells the riveting stories of these and other women of the exodus.