The Fire in the Rock — Charles Henderson Norman

The Fire in the Rock is the story of the Exodus from Egypt, as told by Tzipporah, the widow of Moses -- the last eyewitness.  She tells of her childhood and youth in the land of Midyan, living at the foot of the Mountain of God; and she tells us of Moses, her husband and the father of her children.  Moses -- whose birth name was not Moses -- was Prophet and Lawgiver, but we learn that he was much more; he was Tzipporah's husband and lover and the father of her children.  She tells of their dramatic meeting, their courtship and wedding, and of the extraordinary events that followed.  We learn that Moses was in many ways an ordinary man; a profoundly humble, and troubled, man, who had at last found peace in the desert with Tzipporah and their sons.  But, after a transcendent experience on the Mountain before the Fire of God -- and because of his many and uniquely varied experiences -- Moses found himself able to seize an opportunity to free his people, and compelled, almost against his will, to become the Lawgiver.  We learn, too, of Tzipporah's own astonishing part in these world-changing events.