How do you respond to the claim that the story of Moses’ being placed in a basket is borrowed from the story of Sargon I, from 2400 BC?
Question: 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, and 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. ” ...