Why isn't Moses's adopted mother's name is not mention in the bible?

by xhepera on April 13th, 2009

Interesting question. My answer is that I don't know, except perhaps she was not considered an important enough personage to warrant mention by name. More odd though, I think (and your question brought this up for me) is why the pharaoh of the Exodus story is never mentioned by name, particularly since OT writers were real big on naming names in most of the stories.

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Tradionaly Rameses is the Pharaoh but they found evidence that it was not him. Since the 18th Dynasty has names such as Ahmose, and Thutmosis and the Egyptains had a namesake. For more info:
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2009/02/Moses-and-Hatshepsut.aspx
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by Leah on April 14th, 2009
Yes, I was aware that Rameses had long been thought tobe the pharaoh of the Exodus. I just find it curious that the pharaoh is never named.
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Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it. Was your mentioning of those names a reference to the fact that the name Moses was likely a shortened form of his Egyptian given name?
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Those suffixes, -mose, -mosis, -mesis, etc. are Hellenized forms of an ancient Egyptian word that meant "child of" or "born of." Rameses=child of Ra, Thutmosis= child of Thoth, Ahmose=child of Aah (which was actually a title of the god Thoth, who was, in Egyptian, called Aah-Djehuti), etc. Moses would have, of course, eventually dropped any reference to an Egyptian deity.
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by xhepera on April 14th, 2009
The only reason they show Rameses as the pharaoh in Exoudus is because he was a popular pharaoh. If his rule was good, then I dought Exodus was in his time.
That might be true about Moses having an Egyptian name, (something about being from the Nile god, she would of thought). Then he drop it when he became God's chosen leader.
I was thinking Moses might of been a family since Mosis, and Mose are simlar sounding to Moses. She ment that I drew him out of the water, he is in my family. She couldn't been that relgous...since in the bible it says she let him worship the Hebrew God.
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by Leah on April 15th, 2009
Hi. I have read about the "drawn from the water" etymology. I think, though, that that is a later development and the result of Hebrew "punning" as the language has traditionally lent it self beautifully to that sort of thing.

Regarding your comment about the princess not being very religious. The ancient Egyptians had a great many deities and didn't practice any type of exclusivity in their worship, as a rule. Someone worshiping yet another deity wouldn't have been seen as a threat or "wrong." She could have been very religious, actually, though I guess we'll never know. :)
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by xhepera on April 16th, 2009

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by seahorse on April 12th, 2009

There are a few people who names are not mentioned in the Bible ,knowing their names were not important to the Bible account so therefore not mentioned .