And the Pharaoh is… The proper identification of the pharaoh of the exodus likely holds little interest for the average reader of the Bible account, but it is key to discovering, if possible, the identity of the royal daughter who defied her father’s edict and rescued a tiny Hebrew infant from the banks of the Nile. Moreover, he built two other cities not far from it, Betchora Beth-horon was the name of one of them, and Beleth Baalath of the other. He would ask questions to Amen-Re and get answers from the high priest. Pharaoh’s daughter was a woman of great courage. [23] Most scholars of higher criticism believe that an author-compiler treated a mythological account as a reflection of actual historical events, but that it was "not historical" and probably arose "in Hezekiah's era in conjunction with the reopening of the Silwan cemetery in the slopes of the Mount of Olives". Yet the Egyptians left us with a blueprint for the perfect Egyptian queen in the story of their goddess Isis and her husband Osiris.… It was only in his old age, when Solomon took many wives, that he was criticized for allowing them to turn his heart aside from God. She stretched forth her arm, and although the ark was swimming at a distance of sixty ells, she succeeded in grasping it, because her arm was lengthened miraculously. 28:9) And thus, in the pharaoh’s own home, the Prophet Musa—the exact boy … Rehoboam, who is said to have succeeded Solomon, was the son of an Ammonite princess.â[22]. Pharaoh, originally, the royal palace in ancient Egypt. Rashi’s … As a compassionate gesture, his Mitanni brother-in-law sent him an idol of the [Mesopotamian] goddess Ishtar". Mirroring the Judeo-Christian story, Jochebed is called to Pharaoh's palace to act as a wet nurse for him but then, her story, as told by Islam, deviates from the Judeo-Christian version once more, with Asiya being tortured to death at the hands of Pharaoh for professing a belief in the god of Allah.[21]. ", Avraham ben Yaakov tries to understand Solomon's motivations in the scripture texts saying "Since PHARAOH represents the OREPH ("back of the neck", same Hebrew letters as Pharaoh) of creation as opposed to its inner face, the conversion of his daughter by Solomon and her integration into the holy edifice that he was building was a 'coup' similar to the conversion of Batya, the daughter of Pharaoh who drew Moses out of the water. Amenhotep III turned down the request replying, 'That since the days of old no Egyptian kingâs daughter has been given to anyone.' "[8], A less settled question is whether Solomon could have converted and then married an Egyptian woman when Deuteronomy 23:8-9 states "thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. The Pharaoh's daughter is a figure in the Hebrew Bible who is described as marrying Solomon to cement a political alliance between the United Monarchy of Israel and Egypt. The Talmud at Sanhedrin 21b says Solomon knew that there were regulations in the Torah against some of his actions but at the time he felt he was wise enough to disregard them and not fall into sin "it is written: He shall not multiply wives to himself, whereon Solomon said, âI will multiply wives yet not let my heart be perverted.â Yet we read, When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart. It also describes an encounter with the archangel Gabriel, who kills two of her handmaidens for trying to dissuade her from rescuing Moses. Parts of the story are written from her perspective. Any foreign princess that married the Pharaoh came with a large dowry and many attendants, she settled into life at the palace by taking an Egyptian name and becoming a minor (second) wife. The Jewish scholar Rashi's commentary on the passage from 2 Chronicles shows that this relocation was not limited to Pharaoh's daughter. For the first few years of her stepson’s reign, Hatshepsut was an entirely conventional regent. Yaakov goes on to outline Jewish thought on whether this caused the union to be ritually pure, "Some rabbis held that intermarriage would only be forbidden if the non-Israelite party to the marriage does not convert, but others held that converting them in order to marry is also forbidden. Retrieved January 28, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: This page was last edited on 15 January 2021, at 00:16. Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh. 1 Kings 11:14-22 says that Yahweh also "raised up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite ⦠[who had] found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh", and 1 Kings 11:23â25 says Yahweh "raised up another adversary unto him, Rezon the son of Eliada⦠And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon". The slaves produced many structures for Solomon including a palace for Pharaoh's daughter. Her remarkable beh… Yaakov says that "this objection is countered by a tradition (not accepted halachically) that the referenced verse applies only to an Egyptian male but not to a female (which would make the law of the Egyptian parallel to the law forbidding a Moabite but not a Moabitess [such as Ruth] from ever entering the Assembly)".[8]. "[9], In the Talmud at Shab. In either version, she saved Moses from certain death from bot… They informed his mother, Bath-sheba, who roused the king when four hours of the day had flown. She knew her father's decree that all male babies of the Hebrews were to be killed. Among the few female pharaohs was Hatshepsut, daughter of Thutmose I and widow of Thutmose II. The issue lies in the fact that there is no record of Egyptian princesses around this time being used to form alliances through marriage. Charles Pope outlines the work of Ahmed Osman in support of one aspect of this theory, "that the story of Solomon was patterned specifically after the life of Amenhotep III. Pharaoh during Egypt's golden age, King Ramses II built more monuments and sired more children than any other Egyptian king. And he said unto her, "What shall I do? Josephus equates the queen "NikaulÄ" with the one the Bible calls the Queen of Sheba, not with the daughter of Pharaoh who was Solomon's wife, whom he mentions separately later without giving her a name (Ch. The rapidness with which Solomon's empire was established, as described by the Bible, and the ease with which it shortly thereafter submitted to a foreign power is also not consistent with the pattern set by other great ancient civilizations. Genesis 27:46 | View whole chapter | See verse in context And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? At Song 1:5 she is reported to say "I am black" and at Song 4:8-12 the woman is described as "my bride". ), Exodus 2:10.She is twice mentioned in the New Testament ( Acts 7:21: Hebrews 11:24).It would seem that she was alive and in some position of influence about the court when Moses was compelled to flee from Egypt, and thus for forty years he had in … This future queen rather demonstrates how courageous and determined she is. He gradually fell from the highest glory into the deepest misery. "[9], There is also a discussion on Judaism's policy (which is found in the Talmud at Yevamos 24b) of forbidding conversion unless the "Jewish people is downtrodden. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." "And [Solomon built] his [own] house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the like work. And the Roman emperors also, who from their birth are known by other names, are called Caesars, receiving this title from their princely office and rank, and do not keep the names by which their fathers called them. The name of her father is not in the Bible, but Rabbinic Midrash makes her the daughter of one of the Pharaohs … The Talmud and the Midrash Vayosha provide some additional backstory to the event, saying that she had visited the Nile that morning not to bathe for the purpose of hygiene but for ritual purification, treating the river as if it were a mikveh, as she had grown tired of people's idolatrous ways, and that she first sought to nurse Moses herself but he would not take her milk and so, she called for a Hebrew wet nurse, who so happened to be Moses' biological mother, Jochebed. Muslims identify her with Asiya, the Great Royal Wifeof the pharaoh. So the girl went and called the child's mother. "[1] Another scholar points out that marrying Pharaoh's daughter is significant in light of the story of Exodus, "A descendant of former Egyptian slaves now became Pharaoh's son-in-law". She then reprimanded him for his conduct; and the verses of Proverbs 31:1â9 are considered by the Rabbis as having been pronounced by Bathsheba on that occasion. Jewish scribes say that Solomon's teacher was Shimei (son of Gera), and while he lived, he prevented Solomon from marrying foreign wives. The Catholic Encyclopedia states that "The Pharaoh was probably Psieukhannit (Psebkhan) II, the last king of the 21st dynasty, who had his capitol at Zoan (Tanis), and ruled over the Delta. Naamah arrives in Jerusalem at age fourteen to marry King Solomon and develops a complex relationship with another wife, Pharaohâs Daughter, traveling with her to Egypt to visit the ailing Pharaoh. Miriam, the baby's sister, watched to see what would happen. She was told to do that. Pharaohs’ daughter most likely knew about the edict to kill all male Hebrew baby boys, but she wasn’t directly affected by it until she laid eyes on Moses. This is precisely what was done when he was married to Sitamun, the daughter of his father, Pharaoh Thutmose IV. ×ָשָ×× (mashah) -- to draw", "RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH RENEWAL: Jabez the Yahudahite", "Book review: 'Bondage' is an engaging first book in Moses Chronicles series", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pharaoh%27s_daughter_(Exodus)&oldid=1000410972, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The reason for this change is likely because at the time of production, Ramesses II, also Ramesses the Great, her son with Seti I, was still a popular candidate among theologians for the historical counterpart of the pharaoh mentioned in the Book of Exodus as having caused the Plagues of Egypt for his refusal to liberate the Hebrews from bondage. So "one day she beautified and scented herself for him, and she behaved herself haughtily towards him, and treated him disdainfully. At first, Solomon reigned over the inhabitants of the upper world as well as over those of the lower; then only over the inhabitants of the earth; later over Israel only; then he retained only his bed and his stick; and finally his stick alone was left to him (Sanh. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" Avraham ben Yaakov reviewing the material points out that "Solomon's move was questionable"[8] because it appeared to be outlawed by Deuteronomy 7:1-5, which said "neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. Now he had done thus because of his oath, so that he might not break his oath which she had made him to swear, even though he knew that it was an offence (or, sin) to enter into the house of her gods."[14]. ", Rashi explains that Solomon sealed up a place that was in Jerusalem, enclosed by a low wall and filled with dirt, called the Millo (mentioned in 1 Kings 11:26-32). Her step-brother was too young to rule—or so she said. Why did Pharaoh's daughter name the baby she found Moses? '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. 12). She leaves the luxury and safety of her palatial home to reunite with Moses, in the slaves' quarters of the city, and celebrates with him the first Passover Seder. Thutmose) used in conjunction with a namesake deity. And he repeated to her the words that he would do whatsoever she wished, and she said unto him, "Swear to me by the God of Israel that thou wilt not play me false." Also, she does not draw Moses from the Nile, her servants do, and Pharaoh, having learned of the boy's existence, seeks to kill him but Asiya intervenes and Pharaoh changes his mind, allowing the boy to live. As Brian Roberts stated, "The problem is not with the synchronism of Solomon and [Pharaoh] Siamun per se, yet with the problems of attempting to fit the process of marrying out a daughter to a foreign leader. 6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. "[3] The alliance through marriage is seen by scholars as the reason for the reported increase in trade with Egypt at 1 Kings 10:28â29.[1]. "[8] Some Tannaim look at the story of Solomon marrying Pharaoh's daughter and declare it a "criminal act. Additionally, Pharaoh's daughter, in this film, is portrayed as the wife of Pharaoh, rather than his daughter, and is never shown to renounce her idolatrous beliefs or reunite with Moses following his return from Midian, both central parts to her character within Judaism and Christianity, perhaps to simplify the familial connection and plot line for the film's intended child audience. All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court. The character is voiced by Helen Mirren, with her singing voice provided by Linda Dee Shayne. While there is no archaeological evidence of a marriage between an Egyptian princess, the daughter of a Pharaoh, and a king of united Israel, claims of one are made at several places in the Hebrew Bible. "[7] One of the points cited for this is the passage at Song 1:9 that states "I have compared thee, Oh my love, to a steed before Pharaoh's chariots." Pharaohs were typically male, although there were some noteworthy female leaders, like Hatshepsut and Cleopatra. "[9] Rabbi Pinchas Frankel places the blame of this fall on Solomon's wife Pharaoh's daughter. Concerning this Jeroboam admonished him, saying: Your father left it open for the pilgrims, and you enclosed it to make a labor force for Pharaohâs daughter. Further, the Midrash teaches that because of her devotion to Yahweh and her adoption of Moses, she was one of those who entered heaven alive. This legend is based on the words 'I, Kohelet, was king over Israel in Jerusalem' (Eccl. The narrative says that the Cannanite city of Gezer had never fallen before the Israelites from Joshua to David. And why was he punished? 730 BCE) it had been adopted as an epithet of respect. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water. She knows she is his favorite child, and is rumored to be unimaginably beautiful, but she cannot rely upon these factors to help her in such a combustible situation. If I asked you who the freedom fighter is in Exodus, you would likely say “Moses.” But before he even has a name, women are the freedom fighters. The other one was pharaoh's daughter, who went to the bank of the Nile and drew out a prophet. He said thus to him: Thy father David made breaches in the wall, that Israel might come up [to Jerusalem] on the Festivals; whilst thou hast closed them, in order to exact toll for the benefit of Pharaoh's daughter. I Kings 6:1). One of her maidservants saw the basket and brought it to her. 56b the rabbinical defenders of Solomon say that the sin ascribed to him in 1 Kings 11 "is only figurative: it is not meant that Solomon fell into idolatry, but that he was guilty of failing to restrain his wives from idolatrous practices." The Pharaoh's Daughter, is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Cesare Pugni. "[22] At Gezer, no reference to Solomon was discovered, but a cartouche of Amenhotep III was, for it was "during Amenhotep III's reign that Gezer and other major Palestine cities were refortified as royal Egyptian garrisons, and endowed with fine temples and palaces. As Amenhotep III entered his old age, "The long years of indulgence had taken their toll and he had many ailments. This situation changed when the Egyptian army invaded the city, ethnically cleansed the populace, and Pharaoh turned it over to his daughter as a wedding gift, whereby it became the property of Israel. According to the Tanakh, a princess of Egypt, pharaoh's own daughter, found the baby Moses in the Nile and brought him up as her own son. The narrative in 1 Kings 11:1â10 describes Pharaoh's daughter and all of Solomon's wives as leading Solomon into the temptation of straying from the true worship of the God of Israel. The Pharaoh's daughter (Hebrew: בַּת־פַּרְעֹה, lit. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” She found baby Moses among the reeds of the Nile, and raised him as her son – just like the many women worldwide who foster, adopt and care for another’s children. In the sand - … daughter of a Pharaoh of an uncertain age, probably of about the time of the exodus. As the mightiest king of the Middle East, Amenhotep did not send any of his own daughters to other kings in exchange, nor did any other Pharaoh of this dynasty (or likely any other throughout Egypt's history). She is considered one of Egypt's most successful pharaohs. "[8] Yaakov also points out "Despite the many questions that surround it, we do not find Solomon's marriage to Pharaoh's daughter criticized in our text as being intrinsically sinful: verse 3 [1 Kings 3:3] does implicitly criticize Solomon for sacrificing at many high altars but does not criticize him for marrying Pharaoh's daughter. Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v. The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom (starting in the 18th dynasty, 1539–1292 BCE), and by the 22nd dynasty (c. 945–c. [24] The first act deals with the dedication of the temple and Solomon's marriage to Pharaoh's daughter. 8, 193). 8a: "For as long as Shimei the son of Gera was alive Solomon did not marry the daughter of Pharaoh" (see also Midrash Tehillim to Ps. - 2.11. Again it is written: He shall not multiply to himself horses; concerning which Solomon said, âI will multiply them, but will not cause [Israel] to return [to Egypt].â Yet we read: And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six [hundred shekels of silver]. [23], Moses Saved from the Waters (c. 1556), Bernaert de Rijckere, Moses Saved from the Waters (1633), Orazio Gentileschi, The Finding of Moses (17th century), Andrea Celesti, The Finding of Moses (1740), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Finding of Moses (1862), Frederick Goodall, Moses Saved from the Waters (1894), Jacques Clement Wagrez, Pharaoh's Daughter Receives the Mother of Moses (c. 1900), James Tissot, "The Story of Batyah (Bithiah) - A Transformed Identity", "Daughter of Pharaoh: Midrash and Aggadah | Jewish Women's Archive", "Jehudijah Definition and Meaning - Bible Dictionary", "Strong's Hebrew: 4871. And she tied a scarlet thread on the middle of the door of [the house of] her gods, and she brought three locusts and set them in the house of her gods. For, after the death of these kings, a woman ruled as queen, and he gives her name as NikaulÄ, making it clear that while the male kings could all have the same name, the woman could not share this, and for that reason he mentioned her by the name that naturally belonged to her. [22], The 1935 opera Porgy and Bess song It Ain't Necessarily So (George and Ira Gershwin), mentions Pharaoh's daughter finding baby Moses. One can imagine the fear in her heart as she prepares to show him to her father. There is a written account that the King of Babylon sent a princess to King Amenhotep III to marry and requested an Egyptian princess be sent to Babylon to marry him. And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams, like as the inner court of the house of the Lord, and the court of the porch of the house.". Pharaoh's daughter is a main figure in a three-act oratorio called Solomon written by the composer George Frideric Handel. The 'daughter of Pharaoh' represents the source of all the different kinds of worldly wisdom (which are her 'handmaidens'). The Jewish Encyclopedia points out that the opinion "prevalent in rabbinical literature is that Solomon lost his royalty, riches, and even his reason on account of his sins. ( Exodus 2:6-10) Osborn thinks her name was Thouoris, daughter of Rameses II, others that her name was Merrhis. Do not kill him; perhaps he may benefit us, or we may adopt him as a son.’” (Q. "[16], Another source points out that except for the story in the Hebrew scriptures there is no other claim that this happened. Pharaohs daughters. [23] These scholars hold that the "Pharaoh's daughter tradition" was also written or compiled in Hezekiah's time and may have been present in a narrative presentation of history that predated Josiah. Because she drew him out of the water - 2.10. ), The fact that Pharaoh's daughter has been singled out in the accounts of Solomon is significant as similar treatment is not given to his "seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines" (1 Kings 11:3). Photograph courtesy Egyptian National Museum, Cairo, Egypt/Bridgeman Images "[3], Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews[15] states. The pharaoh often received numerous gifts from ambassadors of foreign countries, noble people, special envoys and generals. She is portrayed by Nina Foch. "[9] The Jewish Encyclopedia states "The particular love which he manifested for her (comp. "[9], The Jewish Encyclopedia lists a collection of other stories about Solomon and Pharaoh's daughter, saying she "brought Solomon 1,000 different kinds of musical instruments, explaining to him that each of them was used in the worship of a special idol. He states "Scripture explains: 'â¦for he [Solomon] said, A woman shall not live with me in the city of David'".[5]. "[22], Amenhotep III's âharem included two princesses from Babylon, two princesses from Syria, two princesses from Mitanni, and like Solomon's harem, it included a princess from each of the seven nations listed in 1 Kings 11:1. Bravely, she asked Pharaoh's daughter if she should get a Hebrew woman to nurse the child. He also built other cities that lay conveniently for these, in order to the enjoyment of pleasures and delicacies in them, such as were naturally of a good temperature of the air, and agreeable for fruits ripe in their proper seasons, and well watered with springs."[4]. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to wife, like unto this porch. 3:1). "[10] R' Shlomo Ganzfried outlines the policy saying that "during the reigns of King David and King Solomon, when the Jews enjoyed political autonomy and financial prosperity, no converts were accepted, since they were likely to be motivated by a desire for personal security and monetary gain. The reason? The second act is about the story of his judgement between the two women both claiming the same baby. THE PYRAMID OF PHARAOH DJOSER (27th century B.C.E. Thou hast made thy face evil towards me, and thy regard towards me is not as it was formerly, and thy beautiful form is not as enticing as usual. When Moses killed the Egyptian, where did he hide the body? He continued to sleep, with the keys of the Temple under his pillow; and the priests therefore were unable to offer the morning sacrifice. The Talmud says at Ber. Surviving inscriptions on the walls of her temple indicate she slowly took on the trappings of a male before proclaiming herself pharaoh during the 18th dynasty. At that same time, Pharaoh's daughter was bathing in the river. â R. Nahman said: He took off his phylacteries in front of him. This represents a prodigious army by ancient standards, and one which could only have been amassed over a long period of time by an established civilization. The preserver of Moses, daughter of the Pharaoh who first oppressed the Israelites. The daughter of Pharaoh also has amazing powers granted to her, and is granted a miraculous cure:Pharaoh's daughter now proceeded to do her own will. 'Jewess'), notably the King James Version, but the word is actually an appelative, there to indicate that Pharaoh's daughter was no longer a pagan. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary. The well-known response of Rashi (R. Shlomo Yitzhaki, 1040-1105), founded upon earlier midrashic traditions,both amuses and bemuses: It amuses, because it offers a rather farcical image of an egomaniac so bent on claiming divine status that he must go to great lengths to hide his humanity. And she said unto him, "I will henceforward do thy will, for thou hast sacrificed to my gods and hast worshipped them." ×Ö°×Ö»×Ö´×Ö¸Ö¼Ö×, lit. Other parallels are presented and the article concludes, "Solomon is said to have had 'a thousand and four hundred' chariots (1 Kings 1:26). According to 1 Kings 9:20â23, Solomon enslaved, "All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites" and he had members of "the children of Israel ... rule over the people that wrought in the work." What is meant by And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king? The princess is known as Bithiah. 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