04/06/2016

The word Cush(Kush) means "skin" in Sumerian language.
Sumerians identified the word "Cush" with their own skins.
[i.e. This might suggest that the Sumerians identified the word "Cush" with their own Sumerian skin colour.]

When the bible uses the word "Cush", it has connotations of "black" and "Ethiopian".
Did the hebrews borrow this word from the Sumerians? 
[The hebrew writers of the bible probably borrowed various words from the Sumerian language.
e.g. compare the hebrew word "Eden" to the Sumerian word "Edin" .]

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In response to questions about the colour of Sumerians, one could ask:
"Can the Sumerian change his Cush, or the leopard his spots ?"                      <----- see Jeremiah 13:23 for context

An answer might be: "only through thousands of years of intermixing with other paler nations:
which is what happenned in the fertile crescent."

But those people are no longer Sumerians.The Sumerians became an extinct race 4000 years ago.

So the final answer might be:
"No,the Sumerian could NOT change who his grandfather was".
or
"No,the Sumerian could NOT change his skin because Cush the Ethiopian was his grandfather."





i.e.Sumerians were descendants of Ethiopians(Cushites):
    - thus Sumerians had dark skins.

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