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Moses & Sargon
Cuneiform texts have this to say of King Sargon, the founder of Semitic dynasty of Akkad.
In 2360 B.C.: I am Sargon, the powerful king, the king of Akkad. My mother was an Enitu priestees, I did not know any father
. . . . My mother conceived me and bore me in secret. She put me in a little box made of reeds, sealing its lid with pitch.
She put me in the river. . . . The river carried me away and brought me to Akki the drawer of water. Akki the drawer of water
adopted me and brought me up as his son. . .
The basket-story is a very old Semitic folk-tale. It was
handed down by word of mouth for many centuries. The Sargon legend of the third millennium B.C. is found on Neo-Babylonian
cuneiform tablets of the first millennium B.C. It is nothing more than the frills with which prosperity has always loved
to ado0rn the lives of great men. Who would dream of doubting the historicity of the Emperor Barbarossa, simply because he
is said to be still sleeping under Kyffhauser?
Werner Keller, The Bible as History, 2nd revised Ed. Morrow &
Co, NY, page 123.
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