In this very simple retelling of the old testament story, baby moses is hidden in the river and later found and raised by the pharaoh s daughter. If youll refer to the opening paragraph, youll see three possible pharaohs daughters. The first is thermuthis, described by josephus but found nowhere in scripture. While im intrigued by the egyptian customs and found that fascinating, i was. Pharaohs army followed them into the sea, even though some of the egyptians were afraid, and knew god was with them. The pharaohs daughter in the story of the finding of moses in the biblical book of exodus is an. Lush watercolors provide the backdrop for a largeprint text with only a few difficult words. Muslims identify her with asiya, the great royal wife of the pharaoh. A great example of this subjectivity can be seen is the lachish. The only reason she saved him was that she had pity on the crying infant ex 2. The pharaohs daughter moses adoptive mother women in. If you enjoy biblical historical fiction andor find ancient egypt to be a.
Old testament story, baby moses is hidden in the river and later found and raised. A 1900 ce bible card illustrating the baby moses found by the pharaohs daughter. There were even a number of pharaohs with similar namesthutmose. Now a man of the house of levi married a levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Jochebed and amram were descendants of levi who was one of the twelve sons of israel. The pharaohs daughter treasures of the nile, book 1 by mesu. The midrash relates that the daughter of pharaoh received her new name of bithiah batyah. When i discovered that this book was going to be about moses, i almost didnt read it. Julius lester is the author of more than twenty books for young readers. The pharaohs daughter treasures of the nile, book 1 by mesu andrews book cover, description, publication history. Freire wright is the illustrator of several books for children and currently. Pharaohs daughter did not look upon little moses as a delightful plaything for the. Moses mother was jochebed and his father amram as we later learn exodus 6.
Moses our teacher, is the most important prophet in judaism. Pharaohs daughter all the women of the bible bible gateway. Moses found by pharaohs daughter illustration ancient. The rabbis found the name batyah to be fitting for the daughter of pharaoh in the book of exodus, since she unwittingly realized the divine plan when she kept alive the rescuer of israel. I love books, good books, books to read, my books, christian fiction. The pharaohs daughter in the story of the finding of moses in the biblical book of exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in abrahamic religions.
Though some variations of her story exist, the general consensus among jews, christians, and muslims is that she is the adoptive mother of the prophet moses. When the israelites had finally made it through safe god told moses, stretch out your hand over the sea so that the water goes back to normal, and it. Here he was providentially found by the pharaohs daughter who took pity on him and brought him up as her own child exodus 2. This sister, named almah, is not your typical hebrew preteen. The tomb and fillet of this interesting woman have not been found.
The problem is tumultuous and i will attempt to explain it below. The finding of moses, sometimes called moses in the bullrushes, moses saved from the waters, or other variants, is the story in chapter 2 of the book of exodus in the hebrew bible of the finding in the river nile of moses as a baby by the daughter of pharaoh. This story of ancient egypt and moses, eventual leader of the israelites out of. And a daughter of pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the river, and her damsels are walking by the side of the river, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it, study bible. By determining who the pharaohs daughter was, we can determine who the pharaoh was.
Pharaohs daughter tells a surprisingly wellrounded tale about moses sisterthe one who offered to find a nursemaid when pharaohs daughter found baby moses in the nile. In either version, she saved moses from certain death from both the nile river and from the pharaoh. The greatest difficulty i have encountered in the preparation of these sheets for the press, is the want of books. By the way, the belief that she was hatshepsut, the queen elizabeth of egypt is also mentioned in halleys handbook, p. Pharaohs daughter, the first book of the treasures of the nile series, is a poignant tale about anippe, the daughter of pharaoh akhenaten who later found and raised moses as her own son. Points of interest from the birth of moses raised in the egyptian court, moses learned to read and write, equipping him to later write the first five books. There are many works, of high respectability, relating to hebrew history and law, not found, as far as i know, in any of the public or private libraries in the united states.
Her focus is on pharaohs daughter who retrieves moses as a baby from the nile. So, according to historical documents, who was the pharaohs daughter. So the idea that his name means drawn or drawn out of water would seem to fit the biblical context of the event of moses birth as he was saved out of water by pharaohs daughter who appropriately named him moses ex 2. Finegan, jack, light from the pastthe archeological background of the hebrewchristian religion vol. At the time of moses birth this couple already had a daughter, meriam, and a threeyearold son, aaron calculated from exodus 7. Pharaohs daughter named the child moses, which in hebrew means drawn out of the water and in egyptian was close to the word for son.
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