A context of oppression and resistance
The book of Exodus narrates a beginning marked by a context of oppression in which the pharaoh, with the intention of maintaining his power, decrees the death of the innocent. This description reflects an inhumane system, characterized by the enslavement and destruction of those considered non-persons.
The light in the middle of the darkness
In this dark framework, light breaks through the different characters who appear and who make a clear commitment to life. Faced with the pharaoh’s order to kill the babies, the midwives disobey by cunningly protecting them and receiving divine blessing. Women, such as the mother, the sister and even the daughter of the pharaoh, reveal themselves against unjust laws, becoming models of resistance to the inhumanity of repression.
The feminine rebellion
In this account, the women are the heroines who defy royal orders with their disobedience, becoming symbols of resistance to the cruelty of repression, acting in favor of life and in tune with the source of life.
