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by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved
"Volume III - Abram's Sumerian Influence"

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Abram's Sumerian Influence


    Comment: This file has a critiqe and highlights from a website at http://www.biblesearchers.com/ancients/patriarch/abram1.shtml, entitled "Abraham- the Son of a Sumerian Oracle Priest" Part 1, by Robert D. Mock MD, email: robertmock@biblesearchers.com.    Most of the subject is in question for me, but I did find some insight in a few areas, plus it is well written for the perspective view as an alternative to the vague missing information on Abram's life and history not found in the Bible.    End Comment.

    The story of Abram is found in the Mormon version of the Inter-testament Book of Jasher, the Ebla Tablets, and the ancient Sumerian tablets, born to Terah, the High Priest of the Temple of Ur, and he becomes a contemporary and threatened rival to Nimrod the Mighty Hunter, the builder of the Tower of Babel in the Land of Sumer, who received his power and authority by the stolen garments of skins given by the Lord of hosts to Adam.    The Book of Jasher, translated in 1840 from Hebrew into English and printed by the J.H.Parry & Company, Salt Lake City in 1887, later reprinted in 1988 by Artisan Sales in Thousand Oaks, California.    This ancient document is mentioned twice in the writings of the Judges, Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18.    The book was initially called the ‘upright or correct record’ but since the name of the manuscript was not known, it was called the Book of Jasher, written in ancient Hebrew, the translators admit that only seven or eight root words could be traced to Chaldean origin, negating textual critics who felt most of Hebrew documents were formulated in the era of the Babylonian captivity of the Judean people or were renditions of earlier Sumerian texts.

    Comment: from the KJV: Jasher, Hebrew yashar, yaw-shawr', from yashar, yaw-shar', a prim. root to be straight or even, fig. right, upright.    The book of Jashar, quoted in Joshua 10:13, 2 Samuel 1:18 and in the LXX of 1 Kings 8:53, is thought to have been a collection of poetry, probably odes and psalms in praise of Israel's heroes and exploits.    It contained the Song of Deborah (Judg. 5) and the book of the law.    It vanished during the Babylonian captivity, and was certainly a well-known bit of Hebrew literature.
Joshua 10:13 "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people avenged themselves upon their enemies.    Is it not written in the book of Jasher?    So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."
2 Samuel 1:18 "(Also he bade them to teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher)."
.     End Comment.

    A birth party for Abram was opening high drama of the tension and conflict between this newborn and Nimrod, the ruler of Shinar (Sumer).    During the party an exploding star erupted in the heavens interpreted as an omen of the demise of Nimrod by the hands of Abram.
    The babe was sent into exile, and eventually to the tutelage of Noah and Shem in Ur Casidim, the land of the Khaldini, or the Ur of the Chaldeas.    All the families of Shem inhabited the Mesopotamian valley after the flood.    After the fall of the Tower of Babel, they become the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians, Lydians and the Hebrews/Arab Semites.
    At the age of fifty, Abram returned to the land of Nimrod.    This was the land that Gilgamesh sought when he obtained the Lapis lazuli tablets hidden in a Copper tablet box.    Here was the land where early writing came from the records found by Kainan of the Nephilim, children of the Watchers.    Once again, Abram is caught trying the overthrow the priestly hierarchy, which was his legacy to assume the role of the High Priest.    He burned down the temple of his father, which his brother Nahor died in the flames.    Abram was captured and thrown into a fiery furnace by Nimrod only to emerge unhurt, but his brother Haran died in the flames.    He was then given a large possession, armed guards and Eliezar his servant by Nimrod, but his days were numbered in the court of the Nimrodian Empire.
    The fall of the Tower of Babel by a massive earthquake and the dispersion of the inhabitants of Shinar across the globe before the tectonic plates of Pangea separated into the continents of the world as we know them today.
    After the Tower of Babel collapse, Nimrod is later known in scripture as Amraphel, one of the confederations of kings who invaded and captured Lot, nephew of Abram with the five kings of the Vail of Siddim.    The fate of Nimrod was truly at the hands of Abram.
    Abram fled with his family, after told of an assassination plot by Nimrod, to Harran, and later become king of Damascus.    Terah his father, retired and built a Temple in Harran as a replica of his former Temple to Marduk.    If this all sounds like fantasy, join the Bible Searchers as they investigate the writings of the ancients as they enhance and collaborate the story of Abram in the Book of Genesis.

    Comment: Around 3,000 B.C. to 2,750 B.C. - The Early Bronze Age II-III dates at 2,850-2,350 B.C., and the Bronze Age flourishes in Palestine.    But the area never flourished because INANNA neglected it.    So Unug-Ki lost its kingship, and the hero, Gilgamesh, mentioned in the above paragraph starts his journey.    Names such as BANDA, ENMERKAR, NINSUN show up.     End Comment.

    In the early Sumerian culture, the Anunnaki according to Sitchen, possessed a unique object called ME which was a kind of a computer or data disc which contained instructions for the sciences, arts, and handicrafts.    This object numbered more than one hundred tablets which included: writing, music, metalworking, construction, transportation, anatomy, medical treatments, flood control, and urban decay plus astronomy, mathematics and the calendar.    This object was ‘lowered down from heaven’ or granted to mankind by the ‘gods’ usually through a chosen person or group such as the priesthood.
    Comment: As seen on my Sumerian Creation Story page, "According to Sumerian chronicles of the earlier times, it was at Eridu's temple that Enki, as guardian of the secrets of all scientific knowledge, kept the ME's - tabletlike objects on which the scientific data were inscribed.    One of the Sumerian texts details how the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar), wishing to give status to her 'cult center' Uruk (the biblical Erech), tricked Enki into giving her some of those divine formulas.    Adapa, we find, was also nicknamed NUN.ME, meaning 'He who can decipher the ME's.'    Even unto millennia later, in Assyrian times, the saying 'Wise as Adapa' meant that someone was exceedingly wise and knowledgeable....The 'wide knowledge' imparted by Enki to Adapa included writing, medicine, and - according to the astronomical series of tablets UD.SAR.ANUM.ENLILLA ('The Great Days of Anu and Enlil') - knowledge of astronomy and astrology."

    Enmeduranki (EN.ME.DUR.AN.KI - 'High Priest of the ME's of the Bond Heaven-Earth') or Enmeduranna (EN.ME.DUR.AN.NA – ‘The Lord of Heaven Bonds’), also known as the seventh king before the flood called ENMENDURANNA who reigned for 21,000 years in the fourth city Zimbir (Sippar - SIP.PAR) was given to Utu for knowledge of justice, which is said to be a spaceport city in pre-Diluvian times, commanded by Utu (Shamash) his cult center after the Deluge.
    The Books of Enoch, Jasher and Jubilees claim the biblical 'Enoch' was the equivalent of the Sumerian first priest, but I prefer to think that it was the eighth Lamech (Heb. Lemek, leh'-mekh, lemekh, uncertain meaning) Gen. 5:25, lived between 6,014-6,600 B.C., and at age 182 begat Noah according to the Biblical account.
    Enmeduranki was groomed to be the first High Priest was devoted to the service of an extra-terrestrial dynasty of rulers, known as the Watchers in the Books of Enoch, Jasher and Jubilees.    In these he was given the secrets of Anu, Enlil and Enki in the Divine Tablets upon which the engraved secrets of Heaven and Earth were imprinted, thus teaching him the secrets of divination, and of the calendar.    They also taught him how to make calculations with numbers and showed him how to observe oil and water (knowledge of medicine given either as an enema (oil) or oral medicine (water).
    These were to be transmitted from generation to generation, and in fact became the property of the guild of baru, the major group of diviners in Babylon.
    One source claims the final connection links not with Enmeduranki, but with a fish-man (apkallu), with which each of the first seven kings associated and from whom they learnt all kinds of knowledge.    Enmeduranki's apkallu, called Utu'abzu, is mentioned in another cuneiform text, where he is said to have ascended to heaven.
    Here the Sumerian god, Marduk, the son of Enki, became the god of Sumer and Chaldea.    Here was the family of Enki, a brother called Enlil, who caused the Flood of Noah, and the father Anu, the Ancient and Hidden One.    In this realm of the ancients, the Priesthood of Sumer was given access to the Divine Celestial Tablets of Anu.    Here, in the land of the Anunnakians, as described in the books by Sitchen is the origin of the Chaldean Magi and the life of the High Priest of Ur (Uratu), Terah, who introduces Abram, the son of the Oracle Sumerian Priest.
    Here are a couple of Biblical verses that may reference to Enlil as Jehovah.
    Psalm 82:1 “God (Heb. ‘elohiym, a deity or the Deity) standeth in the congregation of the mighty (Heb. ‘el, any deity or a multitude of deities); he judgeth among the gods (Heb. ‘elohiym, as a plural of deities),” or as other sources state it “Jehovah takes his stand at the Council of El to deliver judgment among the elohim.”    Then in verse 6, “I have said, Ye are gods (Heb. ‘elohiym, as a plural of deities); and all of you are children of the most High (Heb. ‘elyown, el-yone, the Supreme),” or as seen elsewhere, “You too are gods, sons of El Elyon, all of you.”
    The Anunnaki have also been equated with the “Watchers” (who are also mentioned in the books of Daniel and Jubilees), Daniel 4:13, “I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher (Heb. (Chaldean) ‘iyr, eer, a watcher, an angel , guardian) and an holy one (Heb. (Chaldean) qaddiysh, kad-deesh, holy (One), saint) came down from heaven,” or as other sources state it, “Behold a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven.”    End Comment.

Nimrod, the Mighty Warrior
    Nimrod, son of Cush, son of Ham, the second son of Noah, has been recognized in Hebrew scripture as a ‘mighty man’.
    Nimrod’s life has been promoted by the writings of Jasher which inform us that the strength and valor of the mighty warrior was attributed to the possession of one of the sacred relics of the House of Noah, the “garments of skins which God had made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden.” (Book of Jasher, p. 15)    This sacred relic had been entrusted to the care by Enoch, then to Methuselah, and then Noah.    In the possession of the Noah, the garments now over 1650 years old, were stolen by Ham, and given in secret to his eldest son, Cush.    When Nimrod was twenty years old, he was given these garments by Cush at the age of twenty, it states, “God gave him (Nimrod) might and strength, and he was a mighty hunter in the earth, yea, he was a mighty hunter in the field, and he hunted the animals and he built altars, and he offered upon them the animals before the Lord” (Book of Jasher, ibid. p. 15).
    Comment: One individual claimed he had never heard anything about the "garments of skins" before so below is the biblical information to this reference.
    Genesis 3:7 “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
    fig leaves {together} [(He Nun Aleph Tau He Lamed Ayin) the fig was the first plant to be mentioned in the Bible in Gen. 3:7, it represented peace and prosperity in later times.].
    Genesis 3:21 “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.”
    coats of (garments of) [(Tau (Vau vowel) Nun Tau Caph) K(aw)T(uh)N(oo)T or the tunic-coat, or Ketonet a close-fitting shirtlike garment.]
    skins [(Resh (Vau vowel) Ayin) skin - Heb. ‘or, naked, geledh, smooth, basar, flesh, Gr. derma, skin, dermatinos of a skin.    A very common word in the OT, ‘or is used both for animal skin (Gen. 3:21; 27:16; Jer. 13:23) and human skin (Exod. 34;35 KJV; Lev. 13:2; Job 7:5).    Geledh is found only in Job 16:15 (sackcloth).    Basar is used for human flesh (Gen. 2:21; 2 kings 4:34; Prov. 14:30 KJV, NIV “flesh, body”).    In Gen. 2:25 “naked” Final Mem Yod Mem Vau Resh Ayin contains “skins” Heb. ‘or, naked.]
    Genesis 4:4 “And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.    And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:”
    And the LORD had respect (and Yahweh had regard) [(He Vau He Yod Ayin Shin Yod Vau) root He Ayin Shin; looked with favor; Abel offered to God an acceptable sacrifice, and Heb. 11:4 states “because of his faith,” based on a specific command of God in the past, and that without such a divine command his sacrifice would have been mere superstition.    Some believe this is associated with the garments (animal skins) provided by God to hide the nakedness of the man and woman in Gen. 3:21.]
    So you decide whether this represents the stolen garment of skins, that Nimrod in the writings of Jasher which inform us that the strength and valor of the mighty warrior was attributed to the possession of one of the sacred relics of the House of Noah, the “garments of skins which God had made for Adam and his wife, when they went out of the garden.”    End Comment.
    Shinar was the first of the royal cities who were extensively built and became the visible symbol of the unchallenged reign of Nimrod.    His fame spread throughout the land, the symbol kingship was placed upon his head and the era of the god-kings was begun.    Rather than give credit to the Source of his power, he consolidated the power and glory unto himself.
    The first world government was formed and the seeds of world religious and political dominance were instilled in the power of the priestly hierarchy, and the roots of the Chaldi, the secret wise ones were installed.
    The walls of Erech (Uruk) were built on the foundation of a pre-Flood city.

    After the flood, Kish, the city of Cush, is recognized as the first city-state with Kish as its ruler, and according to ancient Sumerian tablets that kingship was lowered down from heaven and that civilization was taught to mankind by the “gods.”
    Comment: As seen on my Sumerian Creation Story the first city was Kic (Kish, Kishi): (Scepter City) the First City of Men in Shumer where kingship began.    Shumer was called the Land of the Watchers, the First Region of post-Diluvian civilization; Sumer.    It had 23 Sumerian kings for an assumed 24,510 years.    Kings of Kish were of another race or tribe developing along side of the Biblical patriarchs.
    I am projecting these 23 kings to have started around 6,000 B.C. as an offshoot of Noah, and this cities reign closed around 4,000 B.C.
    One source claims that between the first and second king that for 960 years the Nephilim queen named NIDABA (also known as GULLA.NIDABA.ANNAPAD) reigned in Kish.
    Of interest to this dynasty is the recent archeological digs in 2005 of the Volume III - Sumerian city of Hamoukar and its meaning, “Men without ears.”
    The Hassuna Culture (6,000 B.C. - 5,250 B.C.) were a people who had moved into the foothills of northernmost Mesopotamia.
    The Samarran Culture which dated back to 5,500 B.C. to 4,800 B.C. was the first finding of a significant irrigation, suggesting there was more investment in the land as far as farming for crops.    Prehistoric Tell Sawwan was a 6th millennium B.C. site of the Samarran Culture on the Tigris River north of Baghdad in Iraq.
    Shem’s son was the Sumerian Arbakad, which is the same as the biblical Arpakhshad (Arpaxad, Arphashad).    According to some sources Arbakad was the father of Cainan a missing generation in Genesis, which is mentioned in Luke 3:36, and I date between 5,965-5,935 B.C.    It is my assumption that a tribe line occurred here which led to the lineage of such entities as Nimrod, Sharru-Kin - Sargon the Great, Ishakka and King Scorpion somewhere between 5,935-3,000 B.C.    This may be the reason why the Hebrew text omitted from the Genesis 11 genealogy the name Cainan because he was not the bloodline required.    End Comment.

    The Book of Jasher, recounts the story of Arphaxad, who had a son by his wife Rasuja, named Kainan, not to be confused with Kainan before the Flood, the son of Ham and father of the Canaanites.    This Kainan came under the special tutelage of his father and learned the art of writing.    One day on the foothills, he uncovered a stone stele with writings which he soon identified as the writings of the Watchers, the fallen angels, which included the “astrology of the sun and the moon and the stars and in all the signs of heaven” (Jubilee 8:3, compare with Book of Enoch 8:1).    Kainan hid the writings from the knowledge of Noah but passed the secret mysteries to his son, Kesed and then to his son, Ur, the builder of the city of Era of the Chaldeas.    It was Ur, who transported this information to the new mystery religion of the Chaldeas and was the first to sculpt molten images for worship.    The formation of idol worship was started by Ur, the father of the Chaldeas.

    Comment: As shown on my Sumerian Creation Story page this concept had to do with the sons of the Genesis Arpachshad (Arpaxad), who was the son of Shem.    I found that the Sumerian name of Arbakad was the same as the Greek Arphaxad (ar-fax’-ad) of the Hebrew ‘Arpakshad, ar-pak-shad’, which was probably of foreign origin, and mentioned as a son of Noah, mistakenly in Strong’s Concordance, since he was shown in the Hebrew text as the son of Seth.
    Arpakshad had a son in Luke 3:36 named Cainan (ca’-nun) with a reference to Kenan, the Hebrew is Qeynan, kay-nawn’, but in the Greek it is Kainan, kah-ee-nan’, of Hebrew origin, a generation not shown in Genesis 11:10-13.    As the verses state Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood, and then begat other sons and daughters.    Next Arphaxad begat Salah, and then also begat sons and daughters.    There is no mention in Genesis about Cainan as the son of Arphaxad, which is only listed in Luke 3:36, where Cainan begat Salah.
    This missing generation has always been amusing to me, and is a mystery to be solved.    This occurred when I discovered that the name Arbakad is the same as Arphaxad.    Arbakad is claimed to be the father of Sargon the Great in some Sumerian texts.    This enlightened me to why this generation may have been left out of the Genesis genealogy when it was translated, but still in other ancient texts when Luke wrote his genealogy.    Apparently the Hebrew scribes when transliterating did not think Cainan was of the inheritance bloodline, and was shunned, and it went to Selah to continue for the Hebraic line.    Therefore Cainan carried on a separate bloodline for the kingship of Sumer from a bloodline directly from Noah, which I propose led to Nimrod, the Sumerian Kings after the Flood and including the other Sargons.    End Comment.

    Gilgamesh claimed, from his reading of tablets engraved on Lapis lazuli and secreted in a “copper tablet box” loosened with “the ring-bolt made of bronze” that this city was built by the seven sages or patriarchs of the Cainite prediluviun society and was not the city of his possessions. (Gardner, John and John Maier, Gilgamesh, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, 1984 Tablet I, Lines 4-6, 22-25)

Birth of Abram
    In the height of the military prowess of the Nimrodian dynasty, the prince of the military hosts was led by the capable leadership of the Terah (Haebrew Terach, teh'-rakh, of uncertain determination), the high priest of Ur, the royal heir to the House of Shem, and later high priest of Harran, and a leader which the “king and the princes loved him, and they elevated him very high… and dignified him above all his princes that were with him." (Book of Jasher 7:49,51. ibid, p. 16).
    At the pinnacle of greatness, second in command of the empire of Sumer, Terah was wed to Amthelo, the daughter of Cornebo.    To this union was born a son, Abram.    In celebration of his birth, a great party was thrown and the guest lists included heads of state (wise men) and conjurors.    The evening of the party, they witnessed an exploding star which came from the east which caused a vast luminescence and rapidly spread and covered the whole night time sky on the Mesopotamian delta.    This spectacular celestial scene prompted the wise men, the Magi, to give their oracular interpretation to Nimrod that Terah's son, Abram would become powerful and kill all the kings of the earth.
    Nimrod, the king of Kish, offered Terah a bribe to purchase Abram, which included gold and silver enough to fill Terah’s house, with the knowledge that Abram would be killed.    A three day waiting period was given for consultation, and during that time, a son of Terah’s servant was substituted for Abram.    The king immediately threw the child down and dashed the head against a stone, secure in his mind that a future political coup had been prevented.
    Abram was secreted out of the city to a rural cave hideout with his mother and nurse and there lived 10 years in exile and isolation.    At the onset of puberty, Abram left his family and traveled north near the site of the Great Ship south of the Ararat Mountains, where Noah and Shem apparently were living in the same area.    There he "learned the instruction of the Lord and his ways …and Abram served Noah and Shem his son for a long time,” (Book of Jasher 9:5, ibid, p. 19.) isolated from the cosmopolitan center of higher learning of Shinar.    Within the foothills of the Armenian mountains, visible in the distance the peaks of Ararat, and within the political influence of the tribal mountain people, the Khaldini of Urartu, Abram received the instruction and wisdom of Yahweh Elohim.    This Wisdom passed from Adam to Methuselah, directly to Noah and then to Abram.    The oral traditions and the tablets of the Book of Adam were studied and learned by the young man, Abram.

Ur of the Chaldeans (Khaldinis)
    David Fasold, his book, The Ark of Noah, while detailing the archeological finds of a ship remains in Armenia and describing the path of the drogue stones, or stone anchors depicting the path of this ancient ship, gives his thoughts on the Armenian connection of Abram.    The area of Armenia lies north of the Mesopotamian valley in the area of Lake Van.
    Local Armenian tribesmen called themselves Hai, pronounced by the people in the Lake Van region as Kh(o)ai, meaning Ram.    They recognized themselves as the People of the Ram and their supreme deity was (K)Hal-di.    Thus was derived the land of the original Khaldini, later corrupted by Greeks in the times of Achaemenian to Chaldea. (Fasold, David, The Ark of Noah, Wynwood Press, New York, NY, 1988. p 184).
    According to Josephus, Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons who colonized the land from the Euphrates delta valley to the Indian Ocean.
    David Fasold, believes that the thirteen B.C.E. Urartu was in reality the area of the Khaldini and consistent with the claims of descent from Arphaxad, born twelve years after the flood from an offshoot of Kesed, reputed son of Nahor (Fasold, Ibid. p. 185).    In the Book of Jubilees, it confirms this idea with a long genealogy.
    In Daniels time, the Chaldeans spoke Syriack (Daniel 2:4 KJV), now known as Armenian, or the language of ancient Syrian.
    In Ezekiel’s day, (Ezekiel 1:3 KJV, Greek spelling) the land of the Chaldeans was by the river Kebar, or in Ur Kasdim by the modern Khabor River in upper Mesopotamian valley.
    Therefore Ur of the Chaldeas was the area above the bifurcation of the Euphrates River in the area of Padan Aram, near the Khabor River and the Syrian border in the town of Harran, now known as Tell Harran.    The people are known today as Armenians, who spoke the ancient language of Syriack in the land near the mountains of Urartu.

The Royal Lineage of Abram
    Here was a family of royal lineage, who claimed descent from the first born from the House of Shem: Arphaxad, Selah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, and Abram.    Yet it is to Eber in which the biblical name Hebrew or Ibri is derived which gives the family of Abraham its greatest identity.    Sitchen claims that the root word means “to cross” and rather than the Semitic origin we must look to Sumerian linguists for the meaning.    He therefore directs us to look to the biblical suffix i when applied to a person means “a native of.”    Therefore Gileadi meant a native of Gilead.    In the same token, Ibri meant a native of the place called “Crossing,” which was the Sumerian name for Nippur: NI.IB.RU.    To Sitchen, this was the Original Navel of the Earth, the pre-diluvium center of civilization.    When transferring linguistics from Sumerian to Akkadian/Hebrew, the n was dropped off.    So Abram, the Ibri, was actually Abram of Ni-ib-ri, a man of Nippurian origin. (Sitchen, Zechariah, The Wars of Gods and Men, Avon Books, The Hearst Corp. 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019 p. 294-295)
    Nippur was noted in ancient Sumerian society as a consecrated city, the navel or center of Sumerian religious society.    It was the nerve center where astronomy was utilized and entrusted to the priestly caste and where the Nippurian calendar originated as soon as the orbits of the post-diluvium sun, earth, and moon were calculated.    Scholars know today this calendar was synthesized about 4,000 B.C. in the age of Taurus.    The Hebrew calendar was derived from this Nippurian calendar as it based its origin on the beginning year of 3,760 B.C. (where 1997 is the Jewish year of 5757).    The Jewish sages recount that these are the years that have passed “since counting [of years] began” (Ibid p.296).    Abram's family was Chaldean and his heritage, a culture and his people worshipped many gods from Sumeria.    Their myths tell that the god named from among them to rule the new age was Marduk, a grandson of the great Anu, and first son of Enki.    Marduk was the instigator of much contention, secretly harboring a desire to rule the earth and the gods.
    When Marduk was given the rule he so long desired, a strange change in the mythology of the region took place - everything was rewritten with Marduk given the credit for all heroic acts, even the planet, ‘Nibiru’, was renamed ‘Marduk.’    In short both the creative force of Nibiru which formed the solar system as we know it and the greatness of the earlier pantheon became notions ascribed to but one of the pantheon to gods!

Terah, the Oracle Priest
    Terah resided in Harran, and was the oracle high priest of the temple of Harran, copied after the divine city of Nippur.    Tell Harran, recognized as a typical tell in the Mesopotamian valley, located eighteen kilometers from the modern Syrian border therefore became the focal center of the Abram story, the area of his roots, in the land of the People of the Ram from the House of Terah.
    Terah was a worshipper of Marduk, the celestial warrior god, Mars.    The Tower of Babel was dedicated to this orbiting celestial proto planet, which returned to an avenging destructive path to earth about every 52-54 years. (Jasher 9:7)
    In his urban estate, Terah built twelve large statues, which resided in his private temple, constructed of stone and wood, and each effigy represented a deity for the month, representing the calenderic system utilized in Nippur.    This new calendar occurred because the flood and the catastrophe which forced the earth to a new and further orbit from the sun increasing the yearly calendar from 290 to 300 days per year to 360 days per year, thus the beginning of a Zodiacal system.

    Comment: The Early Bronze Age I (6000-2900 B.C.).
    The Bible does not cover anything about Abram's birth, events in his youth, his connection with Nimrod, it just begins with Terah and his progeny as you see below.    Terah in Gen. 11:31 took Abram, with his wife, Sarai, and nephew, Lot to Haran, but died in Genesis 11:32.    End Comment.

Abram’s beginnings
    The priestly dynasty passed down through the daughter of Ur, called On, who was the mother of Nahor, the grandfather of Abram.    The traditions were then passed on to Terah and Abram.    While Abram was secreted away from the deadly grasp of Nimrod, he learned the art of writing and the mysteries and secrets of the heavens from his father.    The oracular mysteries were confined within the dynasty of his family, became his birthright.
    Even so, Abram went to live with Noah and Shem who resided in the foothills of the Armenian mountains and resided there for thirty nine years.    It was stated that “Abram knew the Lord from three years old.” (Jasher 9:6)    In his youth he also pondered the meaning of worship of the sun and the moon but came to the conclusion that the Creator God was greater than these.    In the solitude of the Armenian hillside, the true worship of the Creator God and the family traditions in the family of Adam, preserved and transcribed by Noah were given to Abram.
    At the age of fourteen, a plague of ravens settled in the hillside and began to eat the grain as it was being sown and cast across the fields in the springtime.    As soon as they cast the grain, the birds would eat it up and the villagers knew that a disaster harvest was ahead.    Wherever Abram went, he had the magic to dispel the ravens, which flew in great clouds.    By diligently working with his countrymen, he saved the harvest and his fame went throughout the land.    That winter, Abram, designed a novel invention to be placed on the crook-timber of the plows whereby they would drop seed into furrows and the ravens could not find the seed to eat.    Thus at the age of fifteen, Abram became the inventor of the seed furrow planter.
    Comment: Of interest is the connection to Seed furrow and zodiac constellation Bootes who is mentioned as the Coming One, who rules, governs and subdues, and the Sumerian APIN, Akkadian epinnu, means "The Plow," referenced to Triangulum Boreale with gamma star Almach or Almak of Andromedae, Sumerian apin, plow.    The word Plow is also seen in Sumerian word (gis)apin: which means seeder plow (a, 'seed', + bun, 'to blow').    End Comment.

The Return of Abram to Sumeria
    Still in his youth, at the age of forty nine, as sexual maturity took longer to achieve in those days, Abram knew it was time to return to the land of his family.    It was the first jubilee (forty-nine years) of Abram’s life when Nahor, Abram’s grandfather died.    A large family reunion was called in Sumeria.    Peleg, the great grandfather of Nahor had died a year earlier.    The name of Peleg meant ‘division’.    Upon his birth, the continents of the earth were split and were divided and upon his death, the Babel experience caused the massive migration and division of the children of Noah.    The political unrest was settling down and Nimrod, now called Amraphel with his allies were finishing the consolidation of the remnant of his post-Babel empire.
    Abram sought to start a revolt in the Sumerian religious hierarchy.
    Abram settled down, and married his half-sister, Sarai, while Nahor also married, Milcah, the daughter of Harran, and they both started their own families.    One day, Abram took a hatchet and destroyed all the idols except the largest central idol in which he placed the hatchet.    This incident was transmitted by Terah to the king, Nimrod, who had Abram imprisoned after Abram directly implicated the king with the religious deception.
    Ten days later, Abram with his brother Haran, now eighty-two years old, were thrown in a fiery furnace.    Haran was implicated by his father, Terah, as the instigator of the initial deception/ploy of switching the boy Abram for a servant’s son, who was then earlier killed by the king.    As reminiscent in the later incident of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, Abram was not killed in the fiery inferno, but his brother was reduced to ashes.
    Three days in the fiery inferno, before the Akkadian multitudes, Abram stayed according to ancient sources.    After this, Nimrod asked “Abram, O servant of the God who is in heaven, … come hither before me.” (Ibid XII:32).    Abram was sent away in peace with many gift, gold, silver and pearls including many of the king’s servants including Oni, and the most faithful one, Eliezar plus three hundred men.
    Two years of peace reigned between Abram and Nimrod until one day Eliezar heard rumors within the court of Nimrod that an assassination attempt was to be made on Abram’s life.    The king had a prophetic dream that Abram came after him with a sword and when he turned around, he threw an egg on him, which became a river, which drowned his troops.    The river turned back into an egg from which came forth birds, which came down and plucked out the eyes of Nimrod as he was escaping from the scene of battle.    A wise man in the court of Nimrod, Anuki, interpreted the dream that Nimrod/Amraphel and Abram would one day meet on the battlefield in the vale of Siddim and Abram would destroy not only his troops but the hardened warriors of his three allies after their victory over the Kings of the Cities of the Valley of Siddim.    The memory of the exploding star fifty two years prior came back to the king, vowing now to eliminate Abram not only as a rival to the throne but as an enemy of the empire.
    Abram realizing that he would not dissuade his father to destroy the idols decided to appoint himself the vindicator of God’s justice.    One night he arose in the middle of the night and set the whole temple complex on fire.    The fires leapt high engulfing all the idols and religious icons when his brother ran into the complex trying to save the idols.    The ceilings collapsed and his brother Nahor died in the flames.    His two brothers were now dead and Terah knew that Abram was his only salvation.    Some biblical critics have blamed Abram for the death of his brothers, Nahor, in the temple inferno, and Harran, earlier in the fiery furnace and for if he had only tempered his reformationist zeal, and both of his brother’s life might have been spared.

Abram flees Ur Casidim (Khaldini)
    The exodus from Ur Casidim by Abram and the family of Terah was one in haste.    This fact has puzzled theologians for centuries, not knowing the threat of assassination on Abram by Nimrod as depicted in the book of Jasher.    With the death of Nahor in the fiery temple inferno and Haran in the fiery furnaces of Nimrod of Casidim at the age of eighty two, Abram, along with his family and retinue, fled again to the house of Noah, who along with Shem had persuaded Terah to leave Ur Casidim and head towards Canaan.    There they settled or started a new city, Harran, named for Abram’s deceased brother.    It was near the entrance to Canaan and Lebanon yet out of the political sphere of Nimrod’s saboteurs.
    Terah retired away from the cosmopolitan area of Sumer and went back to the foothills of the Taurus Mountain in northwestern Armenia.    There he built a new estate and temple complex at Harran.    Tel Harran, now identified in the Ebla tablets was a noted town of commerce, built at the major northern crossroad center between Sumer and western Asia.    The temple complex built in Harran has been reconstructed by archeologists and noted to be a mirror image of the central Sumerian religious complex to Nannar/Sin in Ur.

Abram, the Scion of the Sumerian Head of State
    At the age of seventy five, Abram is living in the vicinity of Harran and possibly at this time he assumed kingship at Damascus, a noted foreigner with an armed retinue.    Here we see a family involved in the political and religious life of Sumeria, a high class family of noble birth who lived and mingled with the high echelons of Sumerian society.
    AB RAM, his Sumerian name meant “Father’s Beloved”.    Terah, his father, not only was the head of the royal hosts of Nimrod, but also high priest of Ur and accepted in the highest ranks to performs the religious ceremonies at Nimmiru.

    Comment: Early Bronze Age II-III (3100-2100 B.C.) or (2900-2300 B.C.) a period of Abram and his mystery genealogy as I show below the sequence of events according to the Bible.
    With this assurance from Yahweh (Gen. 12:1-5), this Abram at age 75, took Sarai and Lot and journeyed to Canaan.
    Genesis 12:6-7, Abram built an altar at Shechem, near Mount Ebal and Gerizim.
    Gen. 12:8, Abram built another altar at a mountain between Bethel and Ha'ion (Ai).    End Comment.

    After a short stay in the Negev Abram traversed the Sinai Peninsula and came to Egypt.    Not being ordinary nomads, Abram and Sarai were at once taken to the royal palace.    We can only guess what matters of state - alliances, joint defenses, and divine commands - were discussed between the beleaguered Pharaoh and the Ibri, the Nippurian general.    The Bible is silent on this as well as on the length of stay. (The Book of Jubilees states that the sojourn lasted five years).    When the time came for Abram to return to the Negev, he was accompanied by a large retinue of the Pharaoh's men.

    Comment:
    Gen. 12:9-10, A famine forced Abram to go to the Negev (Negeb) and then to Egypt (Mizraim).
    Gen. 12:11-20 Abram was scared of the Egyptians and sent his wife Sarai before him as his sister.    The Pharaoh was afflicted by Yahweh, and realized who Abram was and gave his wife back and many resources and sent him on his way.    Was this before or after the Unification of Egypt?
    Gen. 13:1-4 Abram left Egypt very rich and went back to the Negev, and then to the place between Bethel and Ha'i.
    Gen. 13:5-7 Lot and Abram's with their large herd of animals could not be sustained on the land with the Canaanites and the Perizzites.    Abram's adventures in the Negeb, the problems of grazing and watering rights, and the digging of a well at Beer-sheba echo genuine problems of the shepherd.
    Gen. 13:8-13 They both chose to go their own ways, Lot chose the plain of Jordan (area of Sodom) and Abram remained in the land of Canaan.
    Gen. 13:14-18 Yahweh told Abram of the land to be given to his descendants, and he moved to the plain (by the oaks) of Mamre, which is in Hebron and built an altar to Yahweh.    End Comment.

    Comment: Gen. 14:1-3 the Four Kings that invaded Canaan made war with the kings of the cities in the plain.    End Comment.

The Fall of the Tower Of Babel
    Comment: One individual asked me why there appears to exist a large time gap in the Bible between Building of Tower of Babel and Abram seen in Gen 11.
    As seen on www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterFour/EvidenceOfAbram.htm, I show in Genesis 11:4-5 we see the beginning of "the tower, which the children of men builded."    In Genesis 11:7-9 "They confound their language"; "scattered them abroad"; and "called it Babel."    Immediately in Genesis 11:10 we start with the "generations of Shem" that totals to 365 years until Abram, left the Ur of the Chaldees in Genesis 11:26-27.    It is extraordinary that chronologies of the Tower of Babel and Abram were in the same Chapter of the Book of Genesis.    You can read the rest of the webpage at your convenience.    So is there a gap or not?    End Comment.
    Yahweh Elohim, the manifestation of the Elohim to mankind, was viewed by the Hebrew thought as reflective of the One God, yet the message and visual imagery came many times by emissaries sent by the direct charge of the Elohim.    That they, the angelic beings created in the higher dimensions who served next to the Creator God, would at times be viewed as God, was not inconsistent with the postdiluvian Hebrew thought.
    Some scholars have suggested that language was by mental telepathy and that the telepathic powers of the brain were diminished so man had to communicate by oral speech.    From Babel, they migrated and settled in new homelands: the Indus Valley, China, Egypt, the proto-Mediterranean basin and Meso-America.
    The empire of Nimrod was dispersed, vast migrations moved out to all corners of the globe.    The early Sumerian empire was subdued, but the power of Nimrod was not broken.    His heart was hardened and his people consolidated around him.    Yet the glory days were over and fading fast.    The world, as envisioned by Hancock, in Footprints of the Gods, had already been mapped, explored and the cardinal points had been determined.    Pangea was still intact, the subterranean crust fractured by the flood, and the continental drift had not yet begun.
    The post-Babel empire of Nimrod was significantly reorganized and whereas before the Babel debacle, Nimrod controlled his empire by the might of his own sword, he now sought military alliances to maintain primacy in the military-diplomatic arena.    Nimrod’s subjects also renamed their leader, Nimrod, to Amraphel.    According to the author of Jasher, the title of Amraphel was given because, “at the tower his princes and men fell through his (Nimrod’s) means.” (Jasher 11:6).
    One of Nimrod/Amraphel’s earliest allies was the king of Elam, Chedorlaomer, who had subdued the children of Ham who lived in the vail of Shiddon in the cities of the plains.
    Genesis 14: And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shin'ar, Ariokh king of Ellasar, Khedorla'omer king of Elam and Tidhal king of Go'im – That these made war with Bera King of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shem-eber king of Zebi'im, and with the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
    This ancient war pitted an alliance of four kingdoms of the East against five kings in Canaan.
    At the close of the eighteenth century, the scholarly and religious worlds were startled by the discovery of Babylonian tablets naming Khedorla'omer, Ariokh, and Tidhal in a tale not unlike the biblical one, describing a war of wide-ranging magnitude, in with these three kings:
    Comment: As I said above around 3,000 B.C. to 2,750 B.C. - The Early Bronze Age II-III dates at 2,850-2,350 B.C., and the Bronze Age flourishes in Palestine.    But the area never flourished because INANNA neglected it.    So Unug-Ki lost its kingship, and the hero, Gilgamesh, starts his journey.    Names such as BANDA, ENMERKAR, NINSUN show up.
    In Genesis 14:1, the Four Kings that invaded Canaan (Palestine) were:
    Comment: Gen. 14:4-12 Fourteen years later this war conquered the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and even Lot was captured.
    Gen. 14:13 one of the escapees came and told Abram the Hebrew of the event of his brother.    Abram is called a "Hebrew" for the first time, records a battle between the patriarch and kings of countries or areas as yet unidentified for certain and associates him with the Canaanite king of Jerusalem.    It is possible that reliable historical data are preserved here.
    Gen. 14:14-17 Abram got his 318 trained servants and pursued them into Dan (Leshem), Hobah and defeated the kings and returned all the spoils and people, including his brother Lot.    End Comment.

    Comment: The war occurred in the valley of Siddim, and in Genesis 14:4-6 states 14 years later the Four Kings won, including the giant races, which lived in Canaan before Abram, who were like the Anakim (Sumerian Anunnaki), the Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, and Horites.
    They continued attacking in Gen. 14:7, and conquered: En-mishpat; the Amalekites; and the Amorites, who Amraphel of Shinar was their king.    In Gen. 14:8-12 the four kings had conquered all and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled to the mountains, and even Lot had been captured.
    In Genesis 14:13-17, Abram the Hebrew a new reference to the tribe of Abram, was told about the capture of his brother’s son.    This new title may relate to the last Abram of the tribe, but usually refers to a tribe, which is sojourning as in living in tents.    This Abram who went to Negev because of famine and then feared the Egyptians, now was very brave, and gathered up his army of 318 trained servants and pursued the capturers of Lot to Leshem (Dan, in north Palestine), by night they routed them, and pursued them to Hobah (a place in Syria, north of Damascus).    He conquered all their goods and brought back Lot and his people, his tribe.    The king of Sodom met them after he came back from defeating the four kings in the valley of the King.    End Comment

    Comment: Gen. 14:18-24 deals with the mystery of Melchizedek, the king of Salem, who Abram honored with tithes from the spoils.
    Gen. 15:1-12 the mystery of Eliezer of Damascus, 318, Ram and Heifer, the Hawks, Falcons and Kites.
    Gen. 15:13-18 the prophecy of Abram's posterity, and bondage in a foreign land, the age of Abram at death, when they will return, and ends with a supernatural event, that I think changed the tribe of Abram.

    Genesis 14:18-24 covers the mystery of Melchizedek, the king of Salem, an early name of Jerusalem, who was the priest of the most high God, and possessor (maker) of heaven and earth, who Abram gave a tithe of all he had conquered to him.    Genesis 15:1-12 discusses the mystery of Eliezer of Damascus, 318 servants, the Ram and Heifer, the Hawks, Falcons and Kites, then 15:13-18 covers the prophecy of Abram’s posterity, when they will return, and last as seen in verse 17-18 a supernatural event occurred that may have changed or transformed Abram and his following.

    Intermediate Bronze Age (2300-2000 B.C.).
    Gen. 15:19-21 deals with the Ten Canaanite Tribes and their future history.
    deals with Abram's begetting a son at age 86 by Hagar, named Ismael and his future twelve sons, setting the stage for the twelve princes of Gen. 17:20 and the future conflict with the twelve sons of Jacob of Gen. 25:13.

    Genesis 15:19-21 list the Ten Canaanite Tribes: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.
    The Old Kingdom period of Egyptian history was between 2,700-2,200 B.C., which was the Age of the Pyramids encompassing the Third Dynasty through the Sixth Dynasty.    Around 2,686 B.C. to 2,160 B.C. the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the age of Pyramid building begins.
    MAR/DUK/RA was jealous of the First Region's prosperity, and demanded the Egyptians praise him as the 'Lord of eternity' who presided over all the gods, as one without equal.    He took on the attributes of the other gods (the Anunnaki or Neteru) in order to rule the entire Earth, and expressed this to his father EN.KI.    End Comment.

    Genesis 17: 1-6, provides us with the time and manner in which Abram was transformed from a Sumerian nobleman to a west Semitic potentate, under a covenant between he and his God.    Amid a ritual of circumcision, his Sumerian name AB.RAM meaning “Father's Beloved” was changed to the Akkadian/Semitic Abraham meaning “Father of a Multitude of Nations” and that of his wife SARAI meaning “Princess” was adapted to the Semitic Sarah.
    Abram’s Wife Sarai’s name means “Princess” and since she was a half-sister of Abram we can take it for granted that either Abram's father or Sarai's mother was of royal descent.    Since the daughter of Abram's brother Harran also bore the royal name Milkha meaning “Queenly,” it follows that it was through the father of Abram that the royal blood flowed.    In dealing with Abram's family we thus deal with a family of Sumer's highest echelons; people of a noble deportment and elegant dress as found depicted on various Sumerian statues.
    The biblical suffix “i” when applied to a person, meant “a native of.”
    Likewise, Ibri meant a native of the place called “Crossing”; precisely the Sumerian name for Nippur: NI.IB.RU - the Crossing Place, the original Navel of the Earth.
    The dropping of the n in transposing from Sumerian to Akkadian/Hebrew was a frequent occurrence.    In stating that Abram was an Ibri, the Bible simply meant that Abram was a Ni-ib-ri, a son of Nippurian origin!
    Nippur was never a royal capital; it was a consecrated city, Sumer's “religious center,” the place where the knowledge of astronomy was entrusted to the high priests and thus the place where the calendar - the relationship between the Sun, and Moon in their orbits - was originated.    Our present-day calendars derive from the original Nippurian calendar, which began circa 4,000 BC, in the age of Taurus.    Another item connecting the Hebrews with Nippur: The Jewish calendar still continues to count the years from an enigmatic beginning in 3,760 B.C., which is assumed as a count “from the beginning of the world”; but the actual statement by Jewish sages was that this is the number of years that had passed “since counting [of years] began” - meaning, since the introduction of the calendar in Nippur.
    Votive inscriptions found at Nippur confirmed that the kings of Ur cherished the title “Pious Shepherd of Nippur” and performed there priestly functions; and the governor of Nippur (PA.TE.SI.NI.IB.RU) was also the Foremost UR.ENLIL (“Enlil's Foremost Servant”).
    Some of the names borne by these royal-priestly VIPs resembled Abram's Sumerian name (AB.RAM), also beginning with the component AB (“Father” or “Progenitor”).
    Ancient traditions also depict Abram as greatly versed on astronomy - knowledge then valuable for long journeys guided by the stars.    According to Josephus, Berossus referred to Abraham, without naming him, when he wrote of the rise “among the Chaldeans, of a certain righteous and great man who was well seen in astronomy.”
    The significance of Mount Moriah - Abraham's first focus of interest - was that in those days it served, together with its sister mounts Mount Zophim (“Mount of Observers”) and Mount Zion (“Mount of Signal”), as the site of Mission Control Center of the Anunnaki.    The significance of the Negev, was that it was the gateway to the Spaceport in the Sinai.
    Subsequent narrative informs us that Abram had military allies in the region and that his entourage included an elite corps of several hundred fighting men.    The biblical term for them - Naar - has been variously translated as “retainer” or simply “young man”; but studies have shown that in Hurrian the word denoted riders or cavalrymen.    In fact, recent studies of Mesopotamian texts dealing with military movements list among the men of the chariots and the cavalry LU.NAR (“Nar-men”) who served as fast riders.    We find an identical term in the Bible (I Samuel 30:17): after King David attacked an Amalekite camp, the only ones to escape were “four hundred Ish-Naar” - literally, “Nar-men” or LU.NAR - “who were riding the camels.”
    The mission of Abram was a military one: to protect the space facilities of the Anunnaki - the Mission Control Center and the Spaceport!

    The descriptions of Abram/Abraham are not uniform: at times he appears as:
     In fact this individual seems to have multiple personalities.    If he was all of the above personalities in one lifetime, this brings me to the concept that maybe Abram did represent various leaders over a couple of thousands of years.

    This file was created on May 30, 2009, and updated on October 1, 2009, July 30, 2010.

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