© Charles Chandler

 

In the period of 1744~1702 bce,^1:255 Hammurabi was able to expand his realm to Nineveh. This could have been the product of an alliance between people "from the East" (i.e., India) who founded Babylon in 2000 bce, and another group who took the overland route, settling in Mitanni & Syria, where they fell in with the Amorites. Thus the Indo-Aryan heritage was hte common bond between the Babylonians & the Amorites.

 

Meanwhile, Shem was the provincial governor of Canaan, and his branch of the family wrote the Torah, so Shem is the favored ancestor of the Semites.