Lamech, seeing that the child is different from him, flees to his father Methuselah, who advises him to go to Enoch and ask him for clarification, as Lamech says, “His dwelling place is with the Watchers.”

“Sarah is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not of my mother; and she became my wife” (Genesis 20:12).

Official historiography considers the Akkadians the first Semitic people, but within our declared working methodology, we wonder: were the Sumerians also Semites?

In the so-called “Table of Nations” that we introduced in the previous section of this chapter, all the peoples who lived in the territories of the Middle East and beyond are listed: Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Philistines, Hurrians, Hittites, Moabites, Ethiopians, Amorites, Evei, Akkadians, those of Cyprus, Rhodes, Tarsi, Ophir.

As anyone can easily understand, if this population was so great in all fields of knowledge, they could not have gone unnoticed. However, as Sumerian scholar S. N. Kramer already pointed out, the Old Testament only incidentally mentions the land of Shinàr (Genesis 10:10; Zechariah 5:11), identified as Sumer. But the Bible never mentions the Sumeria

They had dozens of terms by which they identified oil and its derivatives. In the field of building, they showed extraordinary expertise, which is also confirmed in the Bible (Genesis 11:1-4).

Sumerians possessed extraordinary knowledge in all fields and disciplines: writing, literature, agronomy, engineering, geometry, metallurgy, astronomy and timekeeping, units of measurement, civil and criminal law, public government and administration, taxation, accounting, transportation systems, music and dance, education and schooling.

So, only the Israelites kept and preserved their core Hebrew identity, but they did not call themselves “Ivri” (Hebrews). Other people called them that. The terms “Hebrews” and “Israelites” only became synonymous over time.

Esau marries a Canaanite woman and is therefore excluded from the official lineage, whereas Jacob agrees to choose a wife within his father’s family (Genesis 28:1-5). So Jacob preserves the genetic purity of the family: he takes the name of Israel, and from then on, all his descendants are called “children of Israel.”