It’s somewhat easy to fixate on Lot’s wife’s faithlessness
in looking back, and commonly in the depravity of Sodom, but Lot should be
particularly familiar to our lives. The story runs pretty much like this:
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Some background:
Abraham, Ur, Haran, Salem, are all Bronze Age events.
Abraham’s family (from the line of Shem) is probably also the same as the nomadic Habiru
(Hebrew/Eber) people mentioned in correspondence between Canaan and Egypt.
The Amorite people in Canaan (Abram is allies with Mamre the
Amorite) appear to have originated in Sumeria (the same land as Ur, Babylon,
Nimrod’s empire, etc.). Unlike farmers and craftsmen, nomads and their property
are hard to count and they travel, making them harder to tax and conscript into
armies. The Amorites were looked down on in Sumeria, possibly prompting their
migration outward.
Abraham and the Amorites share a common nomadic heritage,
