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Was Moses Copied from Sargon of Akkad? The Basket in the River

By Practical Apologetics | July 27, 2013

Zeitgeist claims Moses' birth story was plagiarized from Sargon of Akkad. But the Sargon text dates to 700 BCE, the narratives have opposite purposes, and the Hebrew word 'tebah' links Moses to Noah—not Mesopotamia.

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