Women in the Bible

Zipporah

Exodus 2:21-22; 4:20, 24-26; 18:2-6

• Exodus 2:21-22 Moses agreed to stay with the man [Jethro], and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage. She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”

• Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt, and Moses carried the staff of God in his hand.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “6 Women Who Protected and Rescued Moses” by Marg Mowczko

• “The Intervention of Zipporah: Protector of Moses” by Lydia Leigh

• “Zipporah: Bible” by Tikva Frymer-Kensky

• They Were Not White: Zipporah and Moses

• "Zipporah: Midrash and Aggadah" by Tamar Kadari

• "Zipporah" by Aubrey Buster and Ruth Wu

• "Moses’ Black-Skinned Wife: What Does the Torah Think of Her?" by Prof. Sidnie White Crawford

Books

• "A Womanist Midrash on Zipporah" by Wil Gafney in I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader, edited by Mitzi J. Smith (2015)

• "Exodus" by Nyasha Junior in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. RInge (2012)