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What can love protect when a prince and a Hebrew woman stand on opposite sides of Egypt’s crisis?
In H. Rider Haggard’s Moon of Israel, Egypt’s royal household faces a crisis of power and faith. The Hebrews seek deliverance from bondage, while Egyptian rulers resist losing their authority. Ana, an Egyptian scribe close to Prince Seti, tells the story from within the court, where public conflict presses on private lives.
Seti loves Merapi, a Hebrew woman known as the Moon of Israel. Their relationship crosses religious, political, and social boundaries. As the plagues strike Egypt, royal rank offers no simple shelter from suffering. Faith, duty, and affection pull against one another, and the lovers’ choices carry consequences beyond themselves.
What you’ll discover
- A scribe inside the court See royal affairs through Ana’s personal experience, close to Seti rather than at a distance.
- Love across opposing peoples Follow Seti and Merapi as affection meets the boundaries their peoples place between them.
- Egypt under the plagues Enter a country where suffering reaches beyond the reach of royal power and rank.
- The costs of loyalty Explore what loyalty demands when faith, royal duty, and love pull in different directions.
- Adventure with a personal heart Find ceremony, hierarchy, and danger around a question of care between people whose peoples stand opposed.
Who will love it
Readers who love ancient Egypt, the Exodus told from the Egyptian side, tales of loyal friendship and star-crossed love, and old-fashioned adventure with prophecy, magic and royal intrigue.
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- A scribe meets a prince
- A killing in the market square
- A royal marriage nobody wants
- Warnings, and the land of Goshen
- The temple, the ambush and a rescue
- The Prince defies Pharaoh
- Exile in Memphis and a love declared
- What the story is really about
- How the tale is told
Who’s who
- AnaA white-haired scribe of Memphis who dreams of writing stories, and who becomes the loyal companion and counsellor of Prince Seti.
- SetiThe gentle, witty Prince of Egypt, who values justice above power and wants to treat the Hebrews fairly even at the cost of his throne.
- MerapiMoon of Israel, a beautiful Hebrew woman of great courage and faith, torn between her people and the Egyptian prince she loves.
- UsertiSeti's proud half-sister and wife, who wants to be queen of Egypt and has no patience for dreams or mercy.
- KiThe chief magician of Egypt, smiling, plump and dangerous, with cold deep-set eyes, who wants Merapi's power for himself.
- BakenkhonsuA very old priest and councillor who has seen five Pharaohs, laughs at everything and knows more than he says.
- AmenmesesThe prince's dark and jealous cousin, who takes the throne and finds that some Power forces him to refuse the Hebrews.
- JabezMerapi's shrewd uncle, a Hebrew merchant who warns and bargains and plays both sides to protect his people.
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La Lune d’Israël
by H. Rider Haggard · 1918
A scribe, a prince who refuses a throne, and a Hebrew woman with a dangerous gift meet as Egypt's plagues begin.
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Moon of Israel is a historical novel by H. Rider Haggard, published after the First World War, and set in ancient Egypt in the years of the Exodus.
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A scribe meets a prince
Ana tells his story when he is very old, in the reign of Rameses the Third. He was born in Memphis, the son of a temple scribe, and copied Books of the Dead for his bread. In his heart he wanted to write tales that others would copy. His life was marked by grief. His little daughter died, and his wife left him for a soldier, so his hair turned white before he was thirty.
His stories slowly won him a name. Prince Seti, heir to Pharaoh Meneptah, was born on the very same day as Ana. He read the tales and sent word that he wished to meet their author. Ana travels to Tanis with his newest story, The Tale of Two Brothers, tucked into his robe.
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What is Moon of Israel about?
It is a historical novel about the Exodus told from the Egyptian side. A scribe named Ana befriends Prince Seti, who loves a Hebrew woman named Merapi, while plagues fall on Egypt and Pharaoh refuses to let the Israelites go.
Who is Merapi, the Moon of Israel?
Merapi is a beautiful Hebrew woman, daughter of Nathan the Levite, who has a Syrian mother. She is called Moon of Israel, and her faith lets her challenge the god Amon, which makes both Egyptians and Hebrews call her a sorceress.
Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus in this book?
Haggard suggests it was not Meneptah but the usurper Amenmeses, who took the throne for a year or two. History says nothing about his fate.
The author
H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · English adventure novelist
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist. He was born in Norfolk, lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, and later settled in Norfolk. He wrote King Solomon’s Mines (1885), She (1887), and Beatrice (1890). He also wrote about agriculture and rural life. He died in London.
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