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Whoops, you’re right. I was going by what I had been told, and that had been
wrong.
Sumerian seems to have had no cognates, at least none recognized.
No, I wouldn't, because nothing rules out Abraham being from Sumer. What text are you talking about, anyway? There are many texts mentioning Abraham. If you are talking about Genesis 11:31, this rules out nothing. After all, Haran was only a short distance off the only practical route from the southern Ur to Canaan, assuming that Terah and his family, and perhaps their sheep, didn't want to die of thirst in the desert on the way. If I meet someone in Seattle who says they come from Moscow, I might well assume that they are from Moscow in Russia, not Moscow, Idaho, even though the latter is much nearer.Would you have been happier had I written, “The only text that mentions...Precisely. That is why I objected to your unqualified "Abraham was not even from Sumer".
Abraham rules out that he was from Sumer”?
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