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The mythic paradigm of the Exodus narrative describes the inexorable triumph of the life-force over death, of wholeness over brokenness. In this narrative, Miriam, sister of Moses, represents a key figure: she assists in the plan to rescue her vulnerable infant brother Moses from Pharaoh’s infanticide, watches over him as he floats in a basket in the Nile, and engineers the arrangement by which he is adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter and nursed by his own mother.
