1. A little twitter essay on the Hebrew Bible, race, and Hollywood.
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2. There's been some discussion of the racial casting of the forthcoming movie Exodus: Gods and Kings: https://twitter.com/TheeSouthside/status/493509410288041985/photo/1pic.twitter.com/KAAF3FTIRa
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3. If IMDB is to be trusted in movie almost all the high-born Egyptians and Israelites are white, the lowly Egyptians blacks.
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4. At the very least, the movie seems to be imposing modern social racial hierarchy on ancient world.
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5. Casting in movie is unfortunate because movie about ancient world is opportunity to show that race isn't fixed but changes over time.
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6. To see what movie misses, consider Zipporah, Moses's wife. There's ample evidence in Bible story that Zipporah was black African.
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7. In Numbers 12 we read that Moses's siblings Miram & Aaron objected to his marriage.
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8. For objecting to Moses's marriage to black woman, God punished Miriam by making her leprous, her skin becoming "white as snow"
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9. Even in 2014, Hollywood has had hard time grappling with likelihood that Zipporah was black.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Kevin J. Maroney
10. In Exodus: Gods and Kings, Zipporah becomes Sephora, and is played by a fair-skinned Spanish actress:https://twitter.com/womzilla/status/493605049403453440 …
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@HeerJeet And here is Zipporah/Sephora in 1956 Ten Commandments:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001119/?ref_=tt_cl_t5 …1 reply 3 retweets 0 likes -
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12. Oddly enough, the version of Zipporah that deals with ethnicity best is from animated film The Prince of Egypt (1998)
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