Brenna B. (demiducky25) reviewed on 9/9/2010 + 161 more book reviews

This book is the second in Marek Halter's Canaan Trilogy, which breathes new life into women of the Bible. This particular book focuses on Zipporah, the wife of Moses. Unlike the main protagonist of the first book, "Sarah," of whom I was familiar with, I honestly wasn't even aware of the fact that Moses even had a wife, or if I did know that at one point, I certainly had since forgotten. But after reading this book, I will not be able to forget Zipporah. Like Moses, she was rescued from the banks of a body of water and raised by someone who was not her birth family. Even though Zipporah was well-loved by her adoptive father and most of her siblings (one sister being the exception as you will see if you read the book), she knows that she will forever be an outsider because of her dark skin. One day, she and two of her sisters are attacked at the well and a stranger named Moses saves them. Zipporah is instantly attracted to this stranger, recognizing him from a dream she once had, and she knows that he is destined for greatness, even though he's struggling to figure out who he really is after escaping Egypt. As the old saying goes "behind every great man, there's a great woman," and in this story it is the woman behind the great man who seems to be the voice of wisdom, pushing her husband to do what will eventually be his destiny, even as he tries to resist it. As I said with my review on "Sarah," yes there are some liberties taken to fill in gaps from the Bible & since none of us were there, we will never know what actually happened, but it's an interesting take on a typically male-centric story from the Old Testament.

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