The myths of Moses.... ancient plagiarism
Because the Judeans went into exile and were exposed to the myths and legends of Babylon, Assyria and the ancient Sumerians and Akkadians....
They adopted many of their myths and changed them to reflect their new monotheistic views.
The birth and infant time of Moses seems to be exactly borrowed from the legends of a genuine Akkadian King, named Sargon the great. So, according to Exodus.... the mother of Moses put him in a covered basket that she covered in pitch to make it water proof. Then Pharaoh's daughter found it and so he was brought up in Pharaoh's house.... plus, he was supposedly from the priestly clan, the Levites.
Well, here are the legends of Sargon....
Quoted from worldhistory.org
"Sargon of Akkad (also known as Sargon of Agade and Sargon the Great, reigned 2334 to 2279 BCE), the founder of the Akkadian Empire, was a man keenly aware of his times and the people he would rule over. While he was clearly a brilliant military leader, it was the story he told of his youth and rise to power that exerted a powerful influence over the Sumerians he sought to conquer. Instead of representing himself as a man chosen by the gods to rule, he presented a much humbler image of himself as an orphan set adrift in life who was taken in by a kind gardener and granted the love of the goddess Inanna. According to the cuneiform inscription known as The Legend of Sargon (his autobiography), he was born the illegitimate son of a "changeling", which could refer to a temple priestess of the goddess Inanna (whose clergy were androgynous) and never knew his father. His mother could not reveal her pregnancy or keep the child, and so she placed him in a basket which she then let go on the Euphrates River. She had sealed the basket with tar, and the water carried him safely to where he was later found by a man named Akki who was a gardener for Ur-Zababa, the king of the Sumerian city of Kish."
Maregaal
11:38 pm
1/10/2022
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