Ancestors of Abraham
History repeats itself sometimes.
It is well known that Alexander the Great marched to the region on the Indus River around 330 BC.
It is thought that a group of Malays sailed from Borneo Island to Madagascar around the first century.
Taking into these facts into consideration, it is no wonder if some indigenous Indians sailed and moved to the Persian Gulf and as far as to ancient Mesopotamia to found the Sumerian civilization.
The types of both the languages of Sumerians and Dravidians are the agglutinative language. And the two ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia and Indus Valley had a trade tie between them.
The point at issue is that Abraham and his clan look like having had their roots in Sumerians. When the last Sumerian kingdom fell around 2000 BC, Abraham and his clan left the city Ur in Mesopotamia. It is rather unthinkable that such a glorious man Abraham was just a nomad. Such an accepted theory apparently lacks respect for Abraham. Though the language Hebrews later adopted was Semitic, originally Abraham must have been from Sumerians.
Although the earliest forms of writing in the region do not go back much further than c. 3500 BCE, modern historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 and 4000 BCE by a non-Semitic people who may or may not have spoken the Sumerian language....
Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerians
And Sumerians most likely came from India. Their relatives in India built the Indus River Civilization. So, ancestors of Abraham must have been a kind of the Dravidian. But where were Dravidians from?
There are two explanations currently accepted for anthropological discussion.https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0SO8x09WtpTYAUA6WtXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbWE0NWtxBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDNQRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDQ3NV8x?qid=20130622083539AAoGFj1
First, that Dravidians originally represented a wholesale migration from the north-west, from eastern and southern Europe. BUT then were forced en masse into the southern part of India by later migrations, famines, geological disturbances and so on. So now, all Dravidian-origin peoples are located in southern India.
Second, that they arrived from "nearby" territories; such as the horn of Africa and/or the South East Asia archipelago.
At the moment, there is no agreement on this matter and both theories have their adherents. Politically, many Dravidians seem to wish to have originated in eastern and southern Europe. Ethnically, there is now a cultural movement to align Dravidians with the "black" races of Africa and Asia.
So, there is a theory that around 5300 BC ancestors of Drvidians sailed from North East Africa on the Indian Ocean. And they built the Indus Valley Civilization around 2600 BC.
However there is one noteworthy feature of the Indus Valley Civilization: it was from the beginning at a very advanced level. It was as though some people with higher civilization immigrated into the Indus Valley to build cities with stones. Their cities did not show incremental advancement. They appeared from the beginning in a complete form.
So, other tribe must have joined Dravidians to establish the Civilization, since such people from Africa do not seem to have had such skills and knowledge to build Indus Valley cities.
Then where did the true builders of the Indus Valley Civilization came from? I think it was Jericho.
Jericho is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank.
The city may be the oldest continuously occupied city in the world.
By about 9400 BCE the town had grown to more than 70 modest dwellings.[citation needed] Estimates put the population as high as two to three thousand people and as low as two to three hundred.[20] Most strikingly, this early town featured a massive stone wall over 3.6 metres (12 ft) high and 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) wide at the base. Inside this wall stood a tower over 3.6 metres (12 ft) high, containing an internal staircase with 22 stone steps.[12][21] The wall and tower have no known precedent in human culture, and would have taken a hundred men more than a hundred days to construct.
After a few centuries the first settlement was abandoned. A second settlement, established in 6800 BCE, perhaps represents the work of an invading people who absorbed the original inhabitants into their dominant culture. Artifacts dating from this period include ten plastered human skulls, painted so as to reconstitute the individuals' features.[12] These represent the first example of portraiture in art history,[dubious – discuss] and it is thought that they were kept in people's homes while the bodies were buried.
A succession of settlements followed from 4500 BCE onward, the largest constructed in 2600 BCE.So, like Alexander the Great, some people moved from Jericho to the Indus Valley to build the civilization. They mingled with Dravidians. And some of them sailed to the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia to be called Sumerians like a group of Malays sailed from Borneo Island to Madagascar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho#Bronze_Age
In summary, ancestors of Abraham traveled from Jericho to the Indus Valley to be mingled with Dravidians and then sailed to Mesopotamia to become Sumerians.
This theory sounds good, since it shows full respect for Abraham, the most glorious human ancestor of Christ Jesus.
Archeological excavations reveal that Jericho was violently destroyed sometime toward the end of the Bronze Age.http://cafn.us/2014/02/04/biblical-nuggets-ancient-jericho/
An Indus Valley Civilization City: Persian-gulf seal was found at Lothal—it is a button seal.http://swapsushias.blogspot.jp/2013/02/indus-valley-civilizationfully-unearthed.html#.U9pgLvl_suc
In the case of Ur, habitation here lasted c. 4000 years, from the fifth to the mid-first millennium BC.http://mitchtestone.blogspot.jp/2012/10/ur-sumerian-city.html
Now we can consider the history of Israelis or Judaists and even Christians in the span of 10,000 years but not mere 4,000 years since we can now identify ancestors of Abraham in Jericho of about 7,000 BC, though 2600 BC looks like a key year for Jericho, the Indus Valley and Sumer.
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Mar 7:31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
Mar 7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
Mar 7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
Mar 7:34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Mar 7:35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mar 7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
Mar 7:37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.