Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com>]

Sargon was a future ruler. Moses had what we all agree was likely an 
Egyptian name. Exodus says he was raised by the Pharaonic family. I 
don't know baby Moses was considered a future ruler. It is simply a 
suggestion, a glorified rumination, if you will. :)


On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 12:24  PM, Jonathan D. Safren wrote:

> > How do you know that baby Moses, or baby Sargon, was considered "a 
> > future
> > ruler"? Anyway, risking the future ruler's life is not a very good way 
> > to
> > ensure his future. It is much more likely that this is a literary motif
> that
> > was used in various ANE literary works, including Exodus.
>
>
> Also in Oedipus Rex and Snow white.
> See the article on the literary motif of the abandoned child in VT 17
> (1967).
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