Netflix Alters the Story of Moses in New Docuseries

Netflix’s docuseries “Testament: The Story of Moses” is both entertaining and frustrating. On one hand, the documentary series takes some valid creative license with the story of Exodus. On the other hand, the series diverges from the Bible strictly for the sake of politically correct sensibilities (I mean, after all, this is Netflix).
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[@satoshinakadashi]

I am generally opposed to Netflix’s blackification of history, but in this instance the source material does indicate Zipporah may have been black. The call her a cushite, which is known to refer to the dark skinned Africans.

[@robertcain3426]

Midianite or Cushite?

[@satoshinakadashi]

@@robertcain3426 Cushite. She is a Midianite, but in Numbers 12 Aaron and Miriam complain about her being a Cushite.

[@SteliosMusic]

She is a Midianite, and they are descendants of Abraham; thus white and the same race as Moses. She is referred to as a Cushite in Scripture because she lived with her family in the land of Cush - if I live in China, that does not make a Chinaman, but I can still have Chinese citizenship.

[@robertcain3426]

@@satoshinakadashi Okay. Yes, interesting. Thanks

[@christianbohls9880]

Be careful in your study. There is a subtle clue to her ethnicity in the Word. Most will overlook this.

[@princeishere1693]

She was ethiopian, Numbers 12:1

[@Frodojack]

Jethro was a Kenite, so his daughter Zipporah would have been at least half Kenite. If she was the Cushite wife, then she would have been half-Cushite and half-Kenite. The problem is that Numbers 12 doesn't say if Zipporah was the Cushite woman, only that Moses's wife was a Cushite. So the Cushite wife of Moses could have been Zipporah, or Moses could have had a second wife, or Zipporah could have died and he remarried to a Cushite. Moreover, the Samaritan Pentateuch has "Kaashet" instead of "Cushite," and "kaashet" is translated as "beautiful." If this is the case, then the text in Numbers 12 says that Moses wife - possibly Zipporah - was a beautiful woman. The Septuagint translates "Cushite" into Ethiopian. At any rate, it's not unreasonable to have Zipporah played by a black actress, although it would probably be more accurate to have her played by an Ethiopian actress.

[@TheFirstManticore]

You know, the Bible says Moses's wife Zipporah was Cushite. A Cushite, in the Bible, is a synonym for Ethiopian. In other words, a Black person. His sister Miriam criticized him for marrying a Cushite.
I'm actually surprised that Netflix didn't make Moses Black and Zipporah White, considering their usual degree of accuracy.

[@francisdaniel3588]

People i know agrees Moses wife was most probably black African from Ethiopia.

[@justicechance959]

Moses wife was African. Please read Numbers 12:1
She was from ancient Ethiopia decent.

[@BigBlobProductions]

Thank you!

[@charliebrownie4158]

Ziphorah however wasn't from Africa. The first wife was from Nubia and a gift from the royal court in Egypt.

[@donovankelly7723]

Netflix, PBS, National Geographic...meh

[@user-zv9um9pb6w]

Tzipora was belived to be black . Check the Rashi

[@agsalien976]

Moses had black skin with straight hair

[@phillipshepherd1465]

If you can show me one such person now I'll give it a thought. Get realistic

[@plonialmoni1948]

The Hebrew bible says Moses married a woman from Cush (modern day, Ethiopia) and Moses’s sister Miriam cried to God that her brother married a foreigner not a Hebrew. I don’t know why the English version would be different but in the actual Hebrew she is from Cush so she actually should have darker skin than the actress but have a caucasian bone structure.

[@conway329]

Your wrong bro. What's your agenda?

[@JamesRichardWiley]

I agree with you. It's a story.

[@Bright_Sol]

Will check it out. I recently watched 10 Commandments and don't remember the love triangle between Moses, Pharoah and whats her name in scripture.

[@keyair3866]

She was black bro

[@phillipshepherd1465]

I'm going to cancel my Netflix because Thier woke lies infuriated me.

[@kiaraditmasa]

The King James. bible is a revised bootleg version of the Bible that has seen over 80 revisions starting with St. Augustine and the Council of Nicaea. the Ethiopian Orthodox bible is the closest to the original text. We all know how the colonizers downgraded, revised or straight up erased some 19 books from the original bible.You should just say you want your heaven all white.

[@michaelmblog]

Thanks. I'll be sure to check out the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.

[@princeishere1693]

@@michaelmblogtake this video down if you Read your bible youd know Moses wife is cushite

[@charliebrownie4158]

He had one wife who was an African woman but she wasn't the only wife he had, she almost killed Moses because she didn't want to circumcised her sons. She in the end was cursed because of her evil nature.

[@cenote100]

Whenever it comes to historical documents or movies, the moment it has the red N on the preview, you know it’s racially and gender bias.