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Tirzah

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Hebrew name
Tirzah in literature
References

{{Other uses}}Tirzah ({{lang-he|תרצה}}, variant "Thirza") is a Hebrew word meaning "she is my delight". In the Bible, Tirzah is the name of a woman, one of the daughters of Zelophehad, but is also the name of a Canaanite city captured by Joshua.^[1]

Hebrew name

Tirzah is first mentioned in the Torah ({{bibleverse||Numbers|26:33|HE}}) as one of the five daughters of Zelophehad. After the death of their father, the five sisters went to Moses and asked him for hereditary rights ({{bibleverse||Numbers|27:1–11|HE}}). Moses brought their plea to God, and it was granted. To this day, women in Judaism have the right to inherit property, though only when there are no male heirs with an equally close relationship to the deceased.

{{quote|Tirzah (my delight) was one of those five daughters of Zelophehad, whose heiresship occupies two chapters of the Book of Numbers. She probably was the origin of Thirza, the name of Abel's wife in Gessner's idyll of the Death of Abel, a great favourite among the lower classes in England, whence Thyrza has become rather a favourite in English cottages.|Yonge, 1878^[2]}}

Tirzah in literature

Tirzah is a figure in William Blake's mythology, notably in his poem To Tirzah from Songs of Experience. According to Northrop Frye, Blake identified both the Biblical city of Tirzah and the daughter of Zelophehad with worldliness and materialism, as opposed to the spiritual realm of Jerusalem in Judah.^[3] The name Tirzah has a similar symbolism in Lew Wallace's novel A Tale of the Christ, in which it is given to the leprosy-afflicted sister of Judah Ben-Hur, who is eventually cleansed by Jesus. The character of Tirzah, played by Cathy O'Donnell, appears in William Wyler's 1959 film Ben-Hur, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Tirzah is also the main character in Sara Douglass's novel Threshold. Tirzah is one of the names used to refer to the character "Angel" in Francine Rivers's book Redeeming Love.

References

1. ^Joshua [https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0612.htm#24 12:24]; cf. Song of Songs [https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3006.htm 6:4]
2. ^Charlotte Mary Yonge, 1878 History of Christian Names. p. 38
3. ^Interpretations of Blake {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064515/http://www.english.uga.edu/wblake/SONGS/52/52bib(1).html |date=2011-07-16 }}

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