Miriam isn’t the only strong woman in the Passover story. There were Shifra and Pu’ah, midwives who save Israelite boys from slaughter. Moses himself is saved by the sacrifice of his mother ...

Yet in the beginning of the Pesach story, which features the rescue of Moses, three of the tale’s four prominent women are named – the midwives Shifra and Puah and Miriam, Moses’ sister ...

The prophet Micah enumerates them and places them side by side as envoys of the Lord: “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you ...

Testament: The Story Of Moses is what ... from his brother Aaron and sister Miriam (Reymonde Amsellem). In other words, he’s not the growling, confident Moses that the Charlton Heston version ...