Moses sends her and the children away before the Exodus from Egypt. Later, they reunite, but he may have taken a second wife, a “Cushite” or Ethiopian woman. Are midianites Israelites? Midianite, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), member of a group of nomadic tribes related to the Israelites andRead More →

Known to the ancient Egyptians mainly as Kush, the territory of the ancient Cushites covered the northern and southern regions of present-day Sudan and Egypt, respectively, and is therefore to be distinguished from the modern nation of Ethiopia, which lies much further south in the Horn of Africa. Who isRead More →