also have evidence of an Israelite tribe, the Benjamites, in Babylonian
             texts. The Benjamites were nomads on the frontier of its boundaries, and
             certainly came in contact with Babylonian ideas- culture, religion, ethics.
             The early tribes of Israel were nomadic, "taking with them the early
             traditions, and in varying latitudes have modified it"6 according to
             external influences. The message remained constant, but the context would
             subtly change. In addition to the Benjamites in Mesopotamia, there were
             tribes of Israel in Egypt during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom period7, which
             certainly exposed these people to Egyptian culture as well as Babylonian
             culture as a result of trade between the two kingdoms. Having placed
             Abraham and certain early Semites in this time, we can now examine the
             The Babylonian Dynasty had as one of its first leaders a man known as
             Hammurabi. In addition to being the world's first known lawgiver, he
             installed a national god for his people name
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