In Near Eastern lore, the closet parallel to Moses’ story is…
In Near Eastern lore, the closet parallel to Moses’ story is the Akkadian tale about a male child, who, like the future Hebrew leader, was cast adrift on a great river. When Sargon’s mother places him in a pitch-sealed basket to float down the Euphrates River, he is rescued not by a princess but by an ordinary gardener who subsequently raised the boy as his own.