Séphora

See also: Séphora (homonymy)

Séphora or Tsippora (Hebrew Sippôra (H) : small bird), in Arabic Safûra , is the wife of Moïse and girl of Jéthro, the priest of the Madian ites.

According to the Jewish tradition, it is buried in the Tombeau of Matriarches, with Tibériade.

Biblical context

In the Book of the Exodus, Moïse leaves the Egypt into fugitive, after having killed an Egyptian foreman. Newcomer with a well close to Madian, it lends strong hand to a group of shepherdesses carrying out their herd, vis-a-vis hostile shepherds. Those invite it, as a thanks, to lead the herds of their father, Jéthro, priest of El Elyon (Supreme God) of Midian.

It binds with one of them, Séphora, which it marries and which gives him two boys, Guershom, and Eliezer.

It then occurs a curious episode, ardently discussed ( Exode 4,24-26): whereas Brace and Séphora arrive at a shelter, God tries to kill Moïse, until Séphora, inspired, practices the circumcision on his/her children, using a stone punt.

The third occurrence of Séphora takes place at the time of the reclusion of Miryam become leprous to have carried out a revolt against Moïse, and to have criticized it to have married a Koush ite (term usually included/understood like meaning Ethiopian ) (12:1 Numbers).
Dans this passage, Séphora thus by name is not quoted, but is not evoked in its capacity as Koushite . will
Séphora being Midianite, of the old sources, like Flavius Josèphe ( Jewish Antiquités 2.10-11), and the Targoum Pseudo-Jonathan, and modern (biblical Critique) estimate that it was not about it, the Bigamie neither illegal, nor being rejected at the time, more especially as a major precedent had been found in the person of Jacob, which had as wives Rachel and Lea.
Cependant, the majority of the traditional sources, as well Juives as Christian, estimate as it acts of the same person, Coushite being to take as a metaphor of the beauty of the Koushites women.

Séphora in Coran

Séphora is not named in the Coran, but it seems there the family of the prophet and supreme Prêtre of the Madian S, as well as the wife of Brace.

Séphora at Proust

In the novel a love of Swann, Charles Swann idolâtre Odette de Crécy by seeing in it Séphora of Botticelli in the fresco of the Vault Sixtine.

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