The Hebrews call me prophetess, the
Egyptians a
seer.
But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of
Israel
and the messenger of El Shaddai.
When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He
whispers a melody, I sing.
At eighty-six, Miriam
had devoted her entire life to loving
El Shaddai and serving His people as both midwife and
messenger. Yet when her brother Moses returns to Egypt from
exile, he brings a disruptive message. God has a new name –
Yahweh – and has declared a radical deliverance for the
Israelites.
Miriam and her beloved family face an
impossible choice:
cling to familiar bondage or embrace uncharted freedom at an
unimaginable cost. Even if the Hebrews survive the plagues
set to turn the Nile to blood and unleash a maelstrom of
frogs and locusts, can they weather the resulting fury of
the Pharaoh?
Enter an exotic land where a cruel
Pharaoh reigns, pagan
priests wield black arts, and the Israelites cry out to a
God they only think they know.