{"id":61567,"date":"2019-08-20T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61567"},"modified":"2023-03-14T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:43:52","slug":"the-third-woman-a-princess-no-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-third-woman-a-princess-no-less\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Woman: A Princess No Less"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[522,591,423,838,600],"acf":{"old_id":"61567","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39842,"related_cahpter":"290","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Like the two prostitutes with one baby, she too is here not to speak for herself, but to communicate something to us about Solomon\r\n\r\n","content":"

The best-known women characters from this chapter of 1 Kings are, of course, the two mothers fighting over one baby. But there is another woman who makes an appearance, right at the beginning of the chapter: \u201cSolomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He married Pharaoh\u2019s daughter and brought her to the City of David [to live there] until he had finished building his palace, and the House of the LORD, and the walls around Jerusalem,\u201d (I Kings 3:1). Pharaoh\u2019s daughter is yet another king\u2019s consort who is voiceless when she is introduced to the reader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the context of the chapter, King Solomon\u2019s marriage to Pharaoh\u2019s daughter is parallel to the completion of the building of his palace. A great king, the verse implies, builds palaces and political alliances — and building alliances is sometimes best achieved through marriage. Pharaoh\u2019s daughter is a tool towards a larger end: enhancing and consolidating King Solomon\u2019s authority. She is the first symbol of many that point towards the beginnings of an empire being built.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the two distraught mothers later in Chapter 3, Pharaoh\u2019s daughter\u2019s primary function in the narrative is to communicate something about Solomon to the reader. The mothers\u2019 literary purpose, as they stand before the king with their single infant, is ultimately to demonstrate King Solomon\u2019s tremendous wisdom. They act with agency within the text, but nevertheless ultimately serve to highlight Solomon\u2019s power. Even more so, Pharaoh’s daughter is even more simply a representation of monarchical strength: she doesn\u2019t speak at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pharaoh\u2019s daughter is almost an afterthought in a Biblical chapter so fraught with drama and suspense. The other women characters in Chapter 3 act with such passion and intent that it is easy to miss the quick mention of one woman, brought far from her home to cement political alliances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is important not to miss her, this nameless figure: the women who do not speak matter too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: Princess of Akhenaton family, between 1351 and 1332, Louvre \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":61576,"id":61576,"title":"1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family","filename":"1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-third-woman-a-princess-no-less\/1kings3-princess_of_akhenaton_family\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings3-princess_of_akhenaton_family","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":61567,"date":"2019-08-20 14:29:45","modified":"2022-04-03 12:25:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":800,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Third Woman: A Princess No Less","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Like the two prostitutes with one baby, she too is here not to speak for herself, but to communicate something to us about Solomon","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":61576,"id":61576,"title":"1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family","filename":"1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-third-woman-a-princess-no-less\/1kings3-princess_of_akhenaton_family\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"1kings3-princess_of_akhenaton_family","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":61567,"date":"2019-08-20 14:29:45","modified":"2022-04-03 12:25:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":800,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1kings3-Princess_of_Akhenaton_family-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61578,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61567\/revisions\/61578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}