that
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
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).
Jonathan D. Safren, Editor
Mo'ed - Annual for Jewish Studies
Center for Jewish Culture
Beit Berl College
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44905 Israel
Tel. 972-9-7476396
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