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(2) Barbara W. Tuchman, “The March of Folly.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 4.

(3) Abram Leon Sachar, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 43.

(4) Ibid. pp. 44-5.

(5) Nathan Ausubel, “Book of Jewish Knowledge.” New York: Crown. 1964.

(6) Paul Johnson, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Harper & Row. 1987, p. 70.

(7) Abram Leon Sachar, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 57.

(8) Ibid. p. 57.

(9) Ibid. p. 84.

(10) Marc Van De Mieroop, “A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC.” Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2004, p. 259.

(11) The Sargon-Moses birth story is based upon the mythic motif of the hunted or persecuted ‘savior’ child who must be hidden from its enemies, and thus is tossed out upon the river in a basket only to be discovered downstream by a humble, childless couple who lovingly raise the abandoned child and future hero, king, or savior. This abandoned and hidden hero returns later to claim his rightful kingship (Sargon’s name actually means “the true king”), or in Moses’ case, lead his true people to the freedom of the ‘promised land’. The Sargon birth story motif of ‘escape from danger and safe return of the hero to glory’ is also seen in the ancient Egyptian story of the birth of the falcon- headed deity Horus. In this mythic drama, after hiding him in the marshes of the Nile, the goddess Isis must then take her newly born son Horus and flee into the desert to save him from an assassin. Horus is the true heir to the throne of Isis’ husband Osiris, who was murdered by his own brother, Seth. Uncle Seth, to seize the throne of Egypt, must find and kill Horus, who was secretly born to Isis by miraculous conception. His mother, the revered goddess Isis, protects the Hero so that the throne of Egypt does not fall into the hands of Seth, a deity representing Chaos.

An English translation of the “Legend of Sargon” can be found in “The Ancient Near East, Volume 1 – An Anthology of Texts and Pictures.” James B. Pritchard (Ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1958, pp. 85-6.

(12) Sami Hadawi, “Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine,” 4th ed. Revised. New York: Olive Branch Press. 1991, p. 31.

(13) Abram Leon Sachar, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 84.

(14) Ibid. p. 105.

(15) http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/rabbonim.html

(16) “Encyclopedia of World History,” ed. Patrick K. O’Brien, et al. New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2000, p. 250.

(17) Abram Leon Sachar, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 105.

(18) Ibid. p. 106.

(19) Ibid. pp. 118-19.

(20) Ibid. p. 119.

(21) Ibid. pp. 118-119.

(22) Ibid. p. 120.

(23) Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Hagiga, 76c.

(24) “Tanakh, the Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text.” Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. p. 1264.

(25) Abram Leon Sachar, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, p. 121.

(26) Ibid. p. 123.

(27) Paul Johnson, “A History of the Jews.” New York: Harper & Row. 1987, p. 112.

(28) Ibid. p. 132.

(29) “Encyclopedia of World History,” ed. Patrick K. O’Brien, et al. New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2000, p. 329.

(30) “Encyclopedia of World History,” ed. Patrick K. O’Brien, et al. New York: Facts on File, Inc. 2000, p. 122.