Sargon of akkad and moses

Sargon and moses similarities
People defeated by the akkadians
Isaiah 20:1

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Recently an unbeliever raised an objection against the reliability of the biblical accounts, he said that the account of Moses in which he was placed in a basket on the river by his mother had been a copy of the biography of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian monarch around 2400 BC. The account of Sargon goes like this: “My mother was high priestess, I did not know my father. My father’s brothers loved the hills. My city is Azupiranu, which is located on the banks of the Euphrates. My mother high priestess conceived me, secretly gave birth to me. She left me In a reed basket, he sealed the lid with bitumen. He threw me into the river, which rose above me. The river carried me and carried me to Akki the water carrier. Akki the water carrier took me as his son and raised me. Akki the water carrier named me his gardener. Although I was a gardener, Ishtar granted me his love, and for four and […] years I have held the monarchy. ” Taking that into account I would like to know. What response do you have to that accusation?

Answer:

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My question is, do you have any insight into the story of Sargon vs. the story of Moses? It seems that these tablets from Ashurbanipal are dated much earlier than the account of Moses’ origins written in Exodus. I would greatly appreciate just a brief exposition of your knowledge on the subject.

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First of all, there is in existence a myth about a certain Assyrian named Sargon. This legend, at first glance, bears some resemblance, not to the life of Moses more broadly, but to the story of his birth. In other words, there are no parallels whatsoever between the mythical legend of Sargon and the life of Moses, such as his leaving Pharaoh’s palace, his going into the desert, etc. However, the stories of the birth accounts are not without parallel. Here is the legend, taken from an ancient manuscript and translated, so you can judge for yourself (taken from http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/sargon.php):

Sargon, strong king, king of Agade [ie. ancient Akkadia], am I. My mother was a high priestess, my father I do not know. My paternal
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Sargon of Akkad
Founder of Akkadian Empire
This article is about the Akkadian king. For the Assyrian kings, see Sargon I and Sargon II. For the YouTuber, see Carl Benjamin. For other uses, see Sargon.
Sargon of Akkad (; Akkadian: 𒊬𒊒𒄀, romanized: Šarrugi; died c. 2279 BC),^[3] also known as Sargon the Great,^[4] was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumeriancity-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.^[2] He is sometimes identified as the first person in recorded history to rule over an empire.
He was the founder of the "Sargonic" or "Old Akkadian" dynasty, which ruled for about a century after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer.^[5] The Sumerian King List makes him the cup-bearer to King Ur-Zababa of Kish before Sargon became a king himself.^[6]
His empire, which he ruled from his archaeologically as yet unidentified capital, Akkad, is thought to have included most of Mesopotamia and parts of the Levant, Hurrian and Elamite territory.
Sargon appears as a legendary