Ms. Kadari, I find your willingness to consider alternate interpretations of this story quite interesting. I'd like to ask you this: If the false mother had really wanted the baby, then as the real mother cried out "don't kill it, give it to her", I would think the false mother would have said "I agree, please don't kill the baby, give it to me, because I am the real mother." Did Solomon have any reason to think that the false mother would not try a cunning ruse such as that?
Ms. Kadari, I find your willingness to consider alternate interpretations of this story quite interesting. I'd like to ask you this: If the false mother had really wanted the baby, then as the real mother cried out "don't kill it, give it to her", I would think the false mother would have said "I agree, please don't kill the baby, give it to me, because I am the real mother." Did Solomon have any reason to think that the false mother would not try a cunning ruse such as that?