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The Pharaoh's daughter (Hebrew: בַּת־פַּרְעֹה, lit. 'daughter of Pharaoh') in the story of the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in Abrahamic religions.
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Ezekiel the Tragedian, a Jew who likely lived in the second or first centuryB.C.E. in the vicinity of Egypt, composed a Greek play called Exagoge (ἐξαγωγή) “Drawing Out,” in which he retells the story of Moses and the Exodus. At one point, Moses, who serves as the narrator, recounts how Pharaoh’s daughter discovered him in the Nile (§13–31). Then h...
At approximately the same time that Exagoge was composed in Egypt, a Judean writer composed a Hebrew work known as Jubilees, in which the Angel of the Presence retells the stories of Genesis and much of Exodus to Moses, with multiple narrative and legal expansions. In the scene with Pharaoh’s daughter, the angel says to Moses: Jub 47:5And in those ...
In the biblical story, Pharaoh’s daughter’ just happened to appear at the Nile. In contrast, Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo, a 1st centuryC.E. text originally written in Hebrew, presents it as inspired by a prophetic dream (9:15–16): Now Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe in the river, as she had seen in dreams, and her maids saw the ark. ...
The first centuryC.E. historian Josephus, in his Antiquities of the Jews, describes how Moses’s father Amram had prophetic knowledge that God would save the Israelites through Moses, and thus he—not his wife Jochebed—constructed the ark, put Moses in it, and placed it in the Nile, hoping that the baby would be discovered and saved. Josephus describ...
The rabbis also give Pharaoh’s daughter a name, Bityah “daughter of Yah,” the Israelite God (rather than an Egyptian god). They derive this name from 1 Chronicles 4:18, which in its genealogical list of Caleb’s descendants refers to a Pharaoh’s daughter—not necessarily this Pharaoh—by that name who married into the family. Leviticus Rabbah, a mid-f...
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, a midrashic work from the latter half of the first millenniumC.E., offers a less generous explanation for why Pharaoh’s daughter was bathing that day, and why she decided to adopt Moses (48:8): Although in this retelling, Bityah wasn’t driven by altruistic motives, she still earns a place in the world to come: Similarly, De...
The Bible’s account of Pharoah’s daughter is sparse, and later interpreters embellished her story. For some she was Thermuthis, named after an Egyptian goddess, for others Bityah, named after her conversion to belief in the Jewish God. In one telling, she tries to have Moses as heir to the throne, in another, she brings him up as an Israelite with ...
Pharaoh’s Daughter Adopts Moses - A man from Levi’s family married a Levite woman. The woman became pregnant and had a son. She saw how beautiful he was and hid him for three months. When she couldn’t ...
Oct 22, 2018 · According to Jewish tradition, this daughter is called Thermouthis, Merris, or Bithia. But the different names assigned to her and the lack of evidence in Egyptian records make this tradition unreliable.
Pharaoh's daughter is called Thermouthis or Merris in Jewish tradition, and by the Rabbins בתיה. על־היאר is to be connected with תּרד, and the construction with על to be explained as referring to the descent into (upon) the river from the rising bank.
The Pharaoh’s daughter, immediately in love with the baby Moses and desirable of saving the Egyptian dynasty, brings him home. One can imagine the fear in her heart as she prepares to show him to her father.
Nov 1, 2013 · According to the early dating theory, it was Thutmoses II’s rebellious daughter, Hatshepsut, that rescued Moses. After the death of Hatshepsut’s father, she assumed Egypt’s throne as a female Pharaoh dressed in male king’s garb—for twenty years. The reason? Her step-brother was too young to rule—or so she said.
