page_title: Tharbis
section_title: Theories
hierarchical_section_title: Tharbis / Theories
caption_attribution_description: English: Miriam and Aaron complain against Moses, engraving from "The Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, vol. 2", edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius A. Bewer, published by Francis R. Niglutsch, New York, 1908.
context_page_description: Tharbis, according to Josephus, was a Cushite princess of the Kingdom of Kush, who married Moses prior to his marriage to Zipporah as told in the Book of Exodus.
context_section_description: Some have suggested that this story is an invention, arising from the "enigmatic" verse in Numbers 12:1 that states "Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married". Miriam is punished for her rebuke of her brother by being afflicted with leprosy.
  It is also suggested that Artapanus of Alexandria may have concocted the story "to impress his pagan audience" with "such a love story".
caption: Miriam and Aaron complain against Moses, engraving from 1908
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