Summer Tanach Studies
Monday, July 19, 2010, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
Eitz Chayim Library
NOTE NEW TIME AND PLACE
Topic is
The Midianites: Priests? Monotheists?
Zipporah, the Cushite Woman, Miriam and Moses
Ex 4:24-26 “The Bridegroom of Blood”
Num 11:35-12:9 “The Cushite Woman”
And Related Texts
Please do not bring food as this is the beginning of the fast of Tisha B’av.
If anyone would like to stay after class and read Eicha (Lamentations) together, we can do so
Guillermo,You may wish to look at Encyclopaedia Judaica (available on-line at some libraries if you are a member, like Hebrew College and Spertus). It is very good. Jewish Encyclopedia is available on-line without cost. It’s pretty good, but the on-line version was written a hundred years ago. The good thing about both sources is that they clearly distinguish between biblical, rabbinic and later commentary. It’s good to sort them out carefully.
Another reference about the “cushite woman”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharbis
Hi Penina
I have not read anywhere in the Tanak something regarding with “racism”.
http://www.britam.org/CushiteWoman.html