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fter single-handedly sav-
ing her baby brother from
Pharaoh's sword, Miryam
sees him grow up to marry a shiksa.
Not only a non-Jew, an unwashed Bed-
ouin shepherdess with greasy tangled
hair who had served the priestess of a
barbaric religion in rites that seemed
akin to prostitution.
For her part,
Tzipporah, with her
witch-like blue eyes
and eerie hypnotic
singing, is buffeted
by forces she cannot
understand. Only
through her love
for the mysterious
stranger with the
disfigured face can
she transcend the
brutality of her life
to show unexpected
bravery.
Rebecca Kohn
In her new novel,
Seven Days to the
Sea (Rugged Land
Books; $24.95), author Rebecca Kohn
retells the story of the Exodus through
the eyes of these two women.
"The book is based on what we read
in Exodus and what we know from
historians and archeologists," says
Kohn. "There are actually very few
references to Miryam and Tzipporah
in the Bible. When we see them men-
tioned together, Miryam is complain-
ing about Tzipporah."
From this brief snippet, the author
— whose 2004 novel, The Gilded
Chamber, retold the story of Esther
— has woven an absorbing tale of
family, politics and miracles.
"The story of the Exodus has a great
hold on our imagination — the idea
of escape from slavery and the idea of
rebirth," Kohn says. "This is a down-
trodden people who got into a bad
situation, and they picked themselves
up and found a new life."
Although she spent six months
researching the book, Kohn says many
aspects of the characters' lives and
relationships are educated guesses.
"We know Goshen, where Moses'
family lived, was right near Rhamses'
capital in Egypt; we know about the
ancient Egyptian gods; we know about
the trade routes.
"We know Tzipporah was a shep-
herdess from the west coast of the
Arabian Peninsula, a very poor and
arid place. Her father was a high
priest. When Moses was there, he
moved the sheep around."
From British and Czech explora-
tions in what is
now Saudi Arabia,
she learned about
the Bedouin life-
style, which had
not changed much
until the early 20th
century. Other
sources confirmed
the Pharaohs used
foreigners as "corvee
laborers" — work-
ers who are forced
by an authority to
do manual labor for
little or no pay.
"I try to get
beyond the politics
of whether it really happened or not,"
Kohn says. "Even if what we read in
the Bible is not exactly what happened
— if they exaggerated or left things
out — we still feel it's our history. The
human truth is what really attracted
me."
Evolving Jewishly
Kohn did not start out to write Jewish
historical fiction.
A native of the Chicago suburb
of Skokie, she earned a bachelor's
degree in English literature from the
University of Chicago, specializing in
Victorian fiction and the Romantic
poets. After college, she found a job
in textbook publishing, beginning
as a proofreader and copy editor.
Eventually, she became sole editor of
the company's economics list.
It was through this job that she
met her husband, economist Meir
Kohn. When he began teaching at
Dartmouth University, they moved to
New Hampshire.
Before The Gilded Chamber,