Re: questionable conception

Harry Erwin wrote:
> Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:35:22 -0400, Sean O'Hara 
>> <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> In literature, whenever someone of humble origins turns into
>>>> a noble hero, they're really adopted. The abandoned children
>>>> of kings are pretty common.
>>>
>>> Moses on line 1, Taran line 2.
>>
>> I wonder what the Pharoh's family thought about Moses - I bet it is
>> pretty much the same thing we would think if some celeberity girl
>> claimed to find a baby nowadays and decided to raise it.
>
> Moses is probably an Egyptian name--it means "X has provided" or 
> "X's
> son" for some Egyptian god, X. See "Thutmose" or "Rameses". The 
> god's
> name was probably dropped quickly for religious reasons.

He's not the only biblical character names for a pagan god.  Cf. 
Esther and Mordecai/ Ishtar and Marduk.