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There is an ancient tradition that Moses was a "king of Cush" (or Kush) and that he had led the Egyptians to attack a "royal city of Ethiopia" named Saba hemmed in by three rivers, the Nile, the Astapus and the Astaboras. Josephus said that this same placed later came to be known as "Meroe", which we all know had a considerable civilization with pyramidal structures and beautiful jewelry that was Egyptian-like but different. I have little doubt that this was the home of the Queen of Sheba. There he married a king's daughter called "Tharbis", which seems to me just a version of an Egyptian word for "princess"--tA rpyt. Otherwise, she is called "Ra'osa", which I think is "rsyt" or "woman of the south". Her father is called "Zoros", which is the same as Zerah the Ethiopian conquered by King Asa in Chronicles. Perhaps this was thought a good name for an Ethiopian king--or perhaps there is some truth behind it. Regardless, there was a New Kingdom title, "King's Son of Kush", which did not necessarily mean a son of the pharaoh but meant the Viceroy of Kush when it was a conquered territory. According to Josephus, Moses married the Kushite princess by way of a political move. ...
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