... Thus, the Septuagint Exodus 2:3-4 says that Moses was “hidden” by his mother after his birth. This is followed closely by Jubilees 47.3 and Jewish Antiquities 2.218. Philo has Moses secretly “nursed at his mother’s breast” (Life of Moses 1.9), and Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities 9.12 has Moses’ mother, Jocha, bed him for three months in her womb! Stephen says that “he was nurtured (anetraphē) for three months in his father’s house” (Acts 7:20). Though not an elaborate expansion, it represents a “filling of the gap” not unlike that in the other rereadings. Similarly, the Septuagint Exodus 2:21 says that Moses “became … as a son” to Pharaoh’s daughter. Josephus supplies the name Thermuthis to the daughter (Jewish Antiquities 2.224), whereas Jubilees 47.5 calls her Meris, and Artapanus adds that she was barren (fragment 3 Charlesworth), a fact which Philo, in turn, develops psychologically (Life of Moses 1.12-15). Once more, Stephen’s trope is simple yet effective: she “raised him as her own son” (anethrepsato auton heautēi eis huion, 7:21). The characterization is richer and more intimate than the biblical account, yet more restrained than some of the other rereadings. ...