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Toward the end of the Book of Numbers, Moses (along with Elazar the Priest and the tribal princes) was confronted by the five orphaned daughters of Zelophehad who demanded their fair share of the territory that was allocated to their late father. Moses submitted their case before God Who found in their favor\u2014providing for the distribution of inheritance to daughters in the absence of sons (Numbers 27:1 ff.). At the book\u2019s very end (which happens to coincide with the end of the forty years\u2019 wandering in the wilderness), the incident is reprised with the additional information that they married cousins (37:11) thereby keeping their inheritance all in the family, so to speak, which meant the tribe of Manasseh.<\/span><\/p>\n

This incident was a defining moment in Torah law as a rare decision in a matter we would call \u201cwomen\u2019s rights.\u201d Suffice it to say in this context that the Sages did not regard these women as protestors and social activists, describing them instead as \u201cwise, lawyerly, and virtuous\u201d (<\/span>hakhamot, darshaniyot, tzidkaniyot<\/span><\/i>; Baba Batra 119b).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the current chapter, the case reaches its fruition as the women approach Joshua (along with Elazar the Priest and the tribal princes) and the earlier divine verdict was implemented in practice: \u201cAnd he gave them inheritance among their uncles\u201d (v. 4). Interestingly, while this ends the biblical story of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters, it has an extra-biblical epilogue.<\/span><\/p>\n

A place named Tirzah is mentioned in the Tanakh as the first capital of the northern kingdom, which, presumably, would locate it in the proximity of the later capital, Samaria (Shomron). In 1910, the archaeologist Gerhard Reisner found some sixty inscribed potsherds that have come to be known as \u201cThe Samaria Ostraca.\u201d Dated to the end of the 8<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE (around the time of King Ahab of Israel), they served as commercial records. Thirty of them contain names of nearby clans or districts of the tribe of Manasseh, including one place named Haglah and another named No`ah\u2014evidently after two of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

28 centuries – what longer lasting legacy could these women have bequeathed?<\/span><\/p>\n

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