True, but my comment was about the modern sumerians not mentioning the flood-
as for “modern sumerians not mentioning the flood” the fact that they don’t doesn’t mean that the flood didn’t happen worldwide.
As the world was repopulated, societies didn’t necessarily carry the old knowledge forward, and societies did sometimes abandon God and not acknowledge the things God did.
You couldn’t possibly be more wrong.
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh dates back nearly 5,000 years and is thought to be perhaps the oldest written tale on the planet. In it, there is an account of the great sage Utnapishtim, who is warned of an imminent flood to be unleashed by wrathful gods. He builds a vast circular-shaped boat, reinforced with tar and pitch, that carries his relatives, grains and animals. After enduring days of storms, Utnapishtim, like Noah in Genesis, releases a bird in search of dry land.
Abraham’s father was a Sumerian from the Sumerian city-state of Ur. Reports I’ve read are that they were not a semetic people. But the Jews became a semetic people byo of intermarriage over time. Still, the Jewish calendar dates from the beginning of the Sumerian city-states roughly 4000 BC or 6000 years ago. Abraham came out of Sumer roughly 2000 BC at the time of the fall and collapse of the last of the Sumerian city-states to their northern neighbors.
the ancient Sumerians, or Abraham’s father’s people, were not Semitic people. Rather they were something like the basques today. But its thought that at the time there were many island genetic people around the world. That world has since disappeared because of the many migrations and invasions in the last several millenia.
The jews became a semetic people by intermarriage. Their genetics don’t even even show any trace of a distinctly sumerian inheritance
there are no modern sumerians.
they disappeared as did their blood line.
The place where they dwelled in southern Iraq is now inhabited by marsh arabs. their genetics don’t display anything unique to that area either.