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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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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13. One take-away: all talk about "liberal" Hollywood is just blather. On race, it's more reactionary than 3,000+ year old book.
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14. Leaving the black/white race stuff, there's also fact that all the Jewish characters seem to be played by uber-WASPs.
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15. Who knew that Charlton Heston as Moses would be the high-point of Hollywood ethnic sensitivity?
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@gilmourtaylor Oh yeah, back in the 1950s Heston was the go-to guy for "ethnic" roles.
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