Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-23T12:33:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisca Cirlena Cunha Oliveira Suzuki.pdf: 2336750 bytes, checksum: 21c083bc10ee472d107ebc7af83b718d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-23T12:33:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisca Cirlena Cunha Oliveira Suzuki.pdf: 2336750 bytes, checksum: 21c083bc10ee472d107ebc7af83b718d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Zipporah, Moses’ wife, is the object of study of this Master’s degree dissertation, a character that belongs to the exodus traditions. She participates in just four episodes in the macronarrative on exodus (Ex 2:15-22; 4:18-20.24-26; 18:1-7). Therefore, in the first sight the Midianite seems to have less matter, in the sense of she occupies a position of secondary figure. However, the biblical literature shows that the roles, in certain moment, can be inverted. Suddenly, the protagonism comes out, exactly, through the character that, in general, does not have a big visibility. In fact, Zipporah astonishes us in many ways: in literary terms she is in the center; historically, she may contradict eventual prejudices from her cultural context in question when she defends the life of those who are endangered in their surviving, without anyone questioning her freedom as a woman; theologically she is reflected as someone who gains the consent of God. Thus, Moses’ Midianite wife becomes a model for the protagonism of those characters that, in general, are evaluated as secondary figures, highlighting their fundamental importance for the history of salvation / Séfora, esposa de Moisés, é o objeto de estudo desta dissertação de mestrado, uma personagem pertencente às tradições do êxodo. Ela participa de apenas quatro episódios na macronarrativa sobre o êxodo (Ex 2,15c-22; 4,18-20.24-26; 18,1-7). No entanto, ainda que à primeira vista a madianita pareça ter uma importância menor, apenas ocupando o lugar de uma figura secundária, a literatura bíblica tem mostrado que os papéis, em determinado momento, podem inverter-se e, de repente, uma personagem sem maior visibilidade assume o protagonismo. Nesse sentido, Séfora surpreende em alguns aspectos: literariamente, ela ganha centralidade na cena em que salva seu noivo de sangue; historicamente, ela talvez contradiga eventuais preconceitos pertencentes a seu contexto cultural, ao defender a sobrevivência de quem se vê ameaçado e ao assumir protagonismo como mulher; teologicamente, ela é retratada como quem obtém o consentimento de Deus. Dessa forma, a esposa madianita de Moisés se torna um modelo para o protagonismo daquelas personagens que, em geral, são avaliadas como secundárias, destacando a fundamental importância delas para a história da salvação

The search for a ‘historical Moses’ is one which has been debated for several centuries. In spite of copious archaeological finds in Egypt and other parts of the ancient Near East, no material remains have been found to substantiate the Exodus story. Mythological stories from the ancient Near East bear striking similarities to the Moses narrative found in the Hebrew Bible. The inconsistencies found in the Hebrew Bible further hamper the attempt to find a historical Moses, instead Moses is found only in tradition. Taking these issues into consideration, other possibilities need to be investigated. This dissertation places Moses growing up in the court of Akhenaten an 18th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh in the middle of the 14th century BCE. The study investigates the possibility of Moses as a son of Akhenaten with Nefertiti as a stepmother, his own biological mother, a Mitannian princess, having died giving birth to Moses. Several similarities between Akhenaten and Moses are discussed throughout the study. The study moves into the 21st century with the groundbreaking discovery of DNA, which provides new conclusions which before were only debated. / Biblical & Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)

The search for a ‘historical Moses’ is one which has been debated for several centuries. In spite of copious archaeological finds in Egypt and other parts of the ancient Near East, no material remains have been found to substantiate the Exodus story. Mythological stories from the ancient Near East bear striking similarities to the Moses narrative found in the Hebrew Bible. The inconsistencies found in the Hebrew Bible further hamper the attempt to find a historical Moses, instead Moses is found only in tradition. Taking these issues into consideration, other possibilities need to be investigated. This dissertation places Moses growing up in the court of Akhenaten an 18th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh in the middle of the 14th century BCE. The study investigates the possibility of Moses as a son of Akhenaten with Nefertiti as a stepmother, his own biological mother, a Mitannian princess, having died giving birth to Moses. Several similarities between Akhenaten and Moses are discussed throughout the study. The study moves into the 21st century with the groundbreaking discovery of DNA, which provides new conclusions which before were only debated. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical Archaeology)