The Sumerians are believed to have invented the cuneiform system of writing. B.C. Sargon I extended his sway from Cyprus to Persia, eclipsing Egypt, from the Black Sea to Arabia. It is almost impossible to ascertain the exact truth of alleged events four thousand years ago, especially as there appears to be no independent proof that Abraham ever existed. Scholars sadly confess the difficulty of coordinating even Egyptian chronology with historical dates in neighboring countries. Despite modern archaeology the problems of Biblical chronology, even geography, of the Patriarchal age remains confused.
People tend to find what they are looking for.
Conditioned from birth by the Bible story, both Jews and Christians interpret the most slender fact to prove that every word of the Scriptures must be true, when Students of the written text know that much can never be confirmed. Most scholars will avoid Immanuel Velikovsky as a radical revisionist who advocates lowering Egyptian chronology by as much as eight centuries . As will be seen after reading this section of this book one will be enlighten to a 954 year variation just as strange as the 801 years. If one had to do a term paper on this subject the following quotation is all you would find in most text. Abraham was the founder of Judaism and the ancestor of both Arabs and the Jews.