“Although set in the life of King Sargon of Akkad (2371-2316BC), the surviving fragments of the tale are Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian in date (7C-6C BC)…A further problem for those wishing to find a correlation between the Sargon legend and the Moses birth story is, as noted above, that the earliest surviving copies of the Sargon text date from Neo-Assyrian or later times.
Wood was costly.ĥ.Evan confuses the date of Sargon with the date of the legend. Longman, Fictional Akkadian Autobiography, 56.ģ.Apropos (2), both Egypt and Mesopotamia were riverine civilizations.Ĥ.Papyrus was a natural, Egyptian building material for rafts (cf. This comparison is more impressive the less you know about it:ġ.Evan disregards the intertextual parallels between Noah and Moses: both are placed in an “ark” (tebah) waterproofed with bitumen.Ģ.”While certainly a folklore theme, the practice of placing a child in the river may have been a widely practiced form of abandonment, similar to the more modern practice of leaving a child on the doorstep of a house,” T.
“I think the story of Sargon being floated in a basket of reeds down the river as an infant is a myth (that predates the Moses myth).”
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