Zipporah
Zipporah is a biblical figure. She is the daughter of the priest Jethro (or Jethro ) of Midian. She became the wife of Moses.
Zipporah gave birth to two sons of Moses: Gershom (German "guest there " ) and the younger Eliezer (Eng. "God Help "). When Moses was defeated by a manifestation of God, Zipporah saved his life by circumcised her son Gershom uncircumcised until then, and then Moses touched with the bloody foreskin. This scene is one of the darkest and most remarkable passages of the Bible ( Ex 4:24-25 EU).
It is unclear whether Zipporah is the same as mentioned in the fourth book of Moses Cushite wife of Moses, or whether Moses has taken a second wife. As Martin Luther in his Bible translation Kush always translated with Mohr, has long been debated whether Zipporah could have been dark-skinned, perhaps.
Zipporah in the literature
In Marcel Proust's A Love of Swann 's love for Odette de Crécy protagonist wakes up when he ascertains a resemblance of her face of Botticelli's Zipporah representation:
" [ ... ] Because it was Swann suddenly that she looked like on striking manner the shape of Sephora's [ sic], the daughter of Jethro on one of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. "
In the poem The Egyptian plagues: The wounds of Moses the Albanian poet Ridvan Dibra is Zipporah at the center. The poem ends with the words: "Well, it is and difficult to be a prophet Woman / My Zipporah ".