[onedoug]

...The ancient Sumerians (a nomadic people who invented writing, accounting, money and most of your fundamental civilization package)....

But for ethical monotheism. That was of the Jews.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[muawiyah]

I think I can make a pretty good argument that Abram, despite his Semitic name, and his followers, were pretty much descendants of the ancient Sumerians.

In fact, the earliest parts of the Bible contains stories those very same Sumerians would have known about.